Former SLA, Sara Jane Olson, Sentence Restored
April 14, 2007 abc news
The former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive who hid
for years by posing as an ordinary housewife had a
year restored to the sentence she is serving for
trying to bomb police cars.
In 2001 Sara Jane Olson, formerly known as Kathleen
Soliah, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 years
in prison for attempting to bomb police cars in 1975
with the SLA, the group best known for kidnapping
newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
The state Board of Prison Terms had reduced Olson's
sentence by a year. But the state Attorney General's
Office appealed that decision and an appeals court
panel restored her full sentence Thursday. It ruled a
lower court had not followed proper procedure when it
allowed Olson to appeal her sentence.
Olson also pleaded guilty in 2003 to second-degree
murder in connection with the 1975 shooting death of a
customer during a bank robbery in Carmichael, near
Sacramento. She is serving six years in that case.
Olson disappeared from California after being charged
in the attempted bombings.
She was caught 24 years later when her minivan was
pulled over by police near her St. Paul, Minn., home.
She had changed her name and was living as a housewife
with a husband and three school-age daughters.
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2 comments:
she received 6 years for a murder and gets out earlier. She now goes back for the remaining time. Boo Hoo for her. She needs to spend the rest of her life in prison.
She is an embarrassment to Minnesota. We don't want her back.
What type of person commits murder and kicks a pregnant bank teller in the abdomen, causing a miscarriage? Another year in prison is not enough. Quit your whining, Kathleen/Sara Jane. You are getting off easy.
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