L.A. council wants former SLA member to remain in prison

By Bill Lindelof
Thursday, April 17, 2008

The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously endorsed a resolution
calling for former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson
to remain in prison for the remainder of her sentence.

The resolution, approved on a 15-0 vote Wednesday, also calls for
Olson to serve a potential parole term within the state, according to
a news release from the Los Angeles Police Protective League.

Olson was paroled March 17 after serving half of a 12-year sentence
for the attempted bombings of two Los Angeles police cars in 1975 and
for acting as the getaway driver in a fatal bank robbery in which a
Carmichael woman, Myrna Opsahl, was killed the same year.

Olson was intercepted at Los Angeles International Airport as she
prepared to fly back home to Minnesota and then re-arrested after
state prison officials said they had miscalculated her release date.

A motion filed in Sacramento Superior Court by her lawyers claims
Olson's due process rights were violated when she was returned to
prison to serve at least another year behind bars. Her lawyers say
that Olson should be freed from prison because corrections officials
had no authority to re-arrest her.

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