Emily Harris was, along with her husband William Harris (1945-), a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army

Symbionese Liberation Army

The Symbionese Liberation Army was an American self-styled left-wing urban militant group active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army...

 (SLA), a leftist United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 group involved in bank robberies, kidnapping and murder. In the 1970s, she was convicted of kidnapping Patty Hearst

Patty Hearst

Patricia Campbell Hearst , now known as Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress, socialite, actress, kidnap victim, and convicted bank robber....

. In 2003, she was convicted of murder in the second degree for being the shooter in a 1975 slaying that occurred while she and other SLA members were robbing a bank in California.