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FD-30 (hov. 5-22-78) FBI Bae so TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: NET C] Teletype {} Immediate [7 TOP SECRET TGS, -(€ Facsimile . Oo Priority ° oO SECRET S . = ag _ (2 Routine (J CONFIDENT TO: : DIRECTOR, FBI (7-15200) FROM: _SAC,-SAN FRANCISCO (7-855) (P) (SQD 10) _ ( HEARNAP’ 7 SUBJ ECT: On 10/3/78, WILLIAM an SENILY HARRIS appeared in - Alameda County Superior Court before Judge STANLEY GOLDE,. © at which time they were sentenced to ten years and eight months to life in the California Prison“System for the kidnapping of PATRICIA HEARST. The sentence was the minimm > term prescribed under California's new Determinate Sentencing _ Law which sentence was _agreed to in a plea bargain. Alameda Coline District Attorney LOWELL JENSEN ; advised that the HARRISES Will be eligible for parole after — ‘serving seven years and two months, or two-thirds of their sentence. vi In addition to the HEARST kidnapping, the sentencing also covered the kidnapping of PETER BENENSON, Berkeley, . California,;.who was thrown into the trunk of his commandeered . car on the night of the HEARST kidnapping, also the armed ‘robbery, of “STEVEN WEED, and for the false imprisonment of STEVE SUENAGA a ‘neighbor who stumbled into the first kidnapping scene andy wads, eaten and held Bains co 8 om by the SLA. See oP $29) - WITELAM® "HARRIS, ‘in & “Lette Ee ea Alameda County Probation Department in connection with his sentencing, claimed that PATRICIA HEARST was not tortured, raped, assaulted, brainwashed, denied food or use of a toilet or any other form. of personal, hygiene. She was only locked alone in a closet for a brief period of time for security reasons and titts- fogevrres during her initial three weeks of captivity. ' HARRIS 5% d | OCT 5.3978 - v7 . Transmitted —:C~*é~ gr (Number? FeI/DO!