These unfortunate souls have no chance at even a single act of clemency, much less an unprecedented two. But the United States is not such a country the prisons teem with convicts who were also led astray and who committed lesser crimes than Patricia.
If the United States were a country that routinely forgave the trespasses of such people, there would be little remarkable about the mercy she received following her conviction. To be sure, following her arrest in 1975, she was unlikely to commit these kinds of crimes again. Patricia participated in three bank robberies, one in which a woman was killed she fired a machine gun (and another weapon) in the middle of a busy city street to help free one of her partners in crime she joined in a conspiracy to set off bombs designed to terrorize and kill. “Patricia Hearst was a woman who, through no fault of her own, fell in with bad people but then did bad things she committed crimes, lots of them. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court The tragedy of the Court's performance in the election of 2000 was not that it led to Bush's victory but the inept and unsavory manner with which the justices exercised their power.” And if the dispute had wound up in the House of Representatives, which has the constitutional duty to resolve controversies involving the Electoral College, Bush might have won there, too. The Florida legislature, which was controlled by Republicans, might have stepped in and awarded the state's electoral votes to Bush. The recount of the 60,000 undervotes might have resulted in Bush's preserving his lead. It is also entirely possible that, had the Court acted properly and left the resolution of the election to the Florida courts, Bush would have won anyway.
A recount might have led to a Gore victory in Florida. It is possible that if the Court had ruled fairly-or better yet, not taken the case at all- Gore would have won the election. Rather, what the Court did was remove any uncertainty about the outcome. Gore-from those who said the justices in the majority "stole the election" for Bush. “In one respect, though, the Court received unfair criticism for Bush v.
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