Hard to be sure, but might be very not guilty with the right lighting.
Posted on 05/02/2008 9:46:50 AM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
SANTEE, California (AP) -- Marie Walsh kept a low profile for 32 years, trying to escape her past life as Susan LeFevre.
She raised three children with her husband of 23 years, Alan, who never knew she was using an assumed identity. Authorities wanted her for escaping from a Detroit prison a year into a maximum 20-year sentence on heroin charges.
Now, LeFevre, 53, is in jail awaiting extradition from California to Michigan on an escape warrant.
She was arrested April 24 outside her home in San Diego's posh Carmel Valley area, wearing a sweat suit and driving a black Lexus SUV. Authorities say her cover was blown by an anonymous caller who tipped Michigan authorities to her new name.
"It's been a secret no one knew for so long, and now everyone knows," LeFevre said in an interview Wednesday at Las Colinas Detention Facility in Santee, a San Diego suburb. "I hope there's some mercy."
LeFevre, who grew up the second of five children, was just 19 when she was arrested during an undercover drug operation in Thomas Township, outside Saginaw, Michigan, in 1974. She said she got into drugs after graduating from her Catholic high school because she was despondent over the death of her teenage sweetheart in the Vietnam War.
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Make her serve the rest of her sentence in maximum security.
She clearly has learned zero life lessons.
Maybe John Kerry will visit her.
Mmmm, have to say not sure how I feel about this one. Lots of resources spent on punishing someone for a drug charge. Yes, I know it is for escape. I just can’t help wondering why they could find her but not all of the illegals in the area.
I’m as hard on crime as anyone but, frankly, if I were the Governor of Michigan, I’d give this woman a pardon or commutation. Do we really want to send a fifty-something mother to jail for a decade or more over three and a half decade old drug charges?
I don’t.
Hard to be sure, but might be very not guilty with the right lighting.
Wow indeed a 20 year sentence for a 19 year old on a drug sting?
She lied to her husband, lied to her children, lied to the community. I'm thinking how her hubby must feel right now. Maybe not serve the remainder of her original sentence, but there should be some justice served.
I agree. She should have to punished somehow, but for 30+ years she has kept her nose clean and has been a productive member of society. If she hurt someone directly then that’s different, but I don’t see anyone benefiting from her being locked up now.
I wouldn’t be the lest upset if she was turned loose. What occurred was years ago and as her life has been above reproach nothing to be served by sending her to jail.
I agree. Most people that flee end up committing other offenses. She didn’t.
The red x is always guilty.
Sounds like she confided in someone she thought was a friend.
She clearly has learned zero life lessons.
That's ridiculous. You're ridiculous!
It was the evil SUV that gave her away to the nanny fascist police.
She must be punished.
Most drug use laws are a giant waste of time, money and resources. If you want to take drugs and die, that’s your business. Selling or harming another person in the process, that’s a different matter.
Give her a check for half and tell her we'll call it even......
Not sure what you thought she should have learned. How to become a productive citizen? Wait -- I've comments like that before on these kind of threads. Something about a woman being raped and beaten, and the police arresting her at the hospital for outstanding traffic tickets...
By "everything bad" are you referring to felonies? Or is this just a straw hat argument? Please specify.
She got the maximum sentence of 20 years in a brokered plea deal? She was 19 years old with no prior record? I can’t blame her for running.
People on the bench who do things like that should be the ones sent to prison.
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