Time For A Pardon?

Thu., Oct. 7, 1999

Former President Jimmy Carter, who commuted Patty Hearst’s prison sentence in 1979, is urging President Clinton to pardon the newspaper heiress. “She’s been a model citizen in every way,” Carter said, adding that, unable to vote, “she’s not been a full-fledged American citizen. And I think she’s one special case.” Hearst was kidnapped by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 at age 19. The group reportedly brutalized and brainwashed her and she ultimately joined them. She was photographed carrying a carbine during an SLA bank holdup. Captured in 1976 and sentenced to seven years in prison, she served 21 months. Now 45, she and husband Bernard Shaw live in Connecticut with their daughters. She has appeared in movies and sitcoms, written novels and done charitable work.

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