Patricia Hearst was captured in San Francisco on September 18, 1975, listing her occupation as "urban guerrilla." Her 1976 bank-robbery trial became the case of the decade: F. Lee Bailey's defense of coercion and "brainwashing" against prosecutor James Browning's cross-examination, which used her post-arrest silence and Tania rhetoric to convict. She was sentenced to seven years, while the Harrises, convicted of the kidnapping itself, served about eight.
The disparity — the kidnapped teenager imprisoned nearly as long as her kidnappers — fueled a clemency campaign spanning the political spectrum. President Carter commuted her sentence in February 1979 after 22 months, and President Clinton granted a full pardon in January 2001, the rare American to receive both forms of relief; her case remains the standard reference on coercive captivity and criminal responsibility.