Posted on 05/30/2023 3:59:33 PM PDT by DallasBiff
U.S. Charles Manson cult follower Leslie Van Houten should be paroled, appeals court rules
May 30, 2023 / 6:02 PM / AP
A California appeals court said Tuesday that Leslie Van Houten, who participated in two killings at the direction of cult leader Charles Manson in 1969, should be let out of prison on parole.
The appellate court's ruling reverses an earlier decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom to reject parole for Van Houten in 2020. She has been recommended for parole five times since 2016. All of those recommendations were rejected by either Newsom or former California Gov. Jerry Brown, with the latest such rejection coming in March of 2022.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta could ask the California Supreme Court to stop her release. Neither his office nor Newsom's immediately responded to requests for comment on whether they would do so.
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California is crazy.
No.
Van Houten wasn’t part of the Tate murders. She wasn’t there. She was part of the crew that murdered the LaBiancas.
Everything is infiltrated.
She will be rooming with maestro John Hinckley.
She was a bad bad girl
Prettiest of the killer girls though
I remember it all so well
How could girls young girls do this
Well Nashville dyke
Was all of the Salem witchcraft just imaginations
As long as Gov. Newsome wants to become President Newsome, Ms. Van Houten is going to stay where she is.
Remember when anti-death-penalty leftists tell you that we should never execute anyone but just put them in prison for life without parole?
They were even lying about that.
The dems want these monsters to live to kill another day
NO.
Absolutely NOT.
[The appellate court’s ruling reverses an earlier decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom to reject parole for Van Houten in 2020. She has been recommended for parole five times since 2016. All of those recommendations were rejected by either Newsom or former California Gov. Jerry Brown, with the latest such rejection coming in March of 2022.]
It’s a sad day when I have to say Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom got something right.
But they did.
[Van Houten wasn’t part of the Tate murders. She wasn’t there. She was part of the crew that murdered the LaBiancas.]
I do believe you are correct.
Keep this prom queen (I think) locked up.
Charlie is dead...Linda Kasabian is dead...Susan Adkins is dead. Only 3 are left..Tex Watson, Pat Krenwinkle and Van Houghton. Cant believe they lived as long as they did. They dodged the Gas Chamber....
Wasn’t that because Rose Bird and the CA Supreme Court reversed the death penalty? So long ago, it’s a good thing (sometimes) we have the internet to set things straight after so long...Four were sentenced to die when the death penalty was abolished.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/manson-and-followers-convicted
Nope.
I’m not surprised that a court would intervene with a ruling like this one. What I don’t know is if the court has any jurisdiction as defined in the state constitution and/or as defined by the state legislature.
“She will be rooming with maestro John Hinckley.”
You forgot about Lynette Froumme, why was she cut lose from prison?
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