The Patty Hearst case is one in which society and the criminal justice system struggled with abduction victim accountability for behavior that helped lead to survival.

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President Bill Clinton left office with immunity from criminal prosecution and a flurry of pardons, including pardons for his half-brother Roger, Patty Hearst and a fugitive oil-trader, Marc Rich.

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One of the most notable crime-solving psychics, Dorothy Allison, gained notoriety in the media for her work regarding high profile cases such as the Patty Hearst kidnapping, in which she claimed she predicted Hearst would later help her captors rob a bank.

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Another Republican, Catherine Hearst, sought Mr Coblentz's help when her daughter Patty was arrested for bank robbery 18 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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