Posted on 07/05/2010 3:38:33 PM PDT by jazusamo
Leslie Van Houten, the one-time Charles Manson follower long seen as the most likely of his ex-acolytes to win freedom someday, faces her 19th parole hearing with a new lawyer and new case law which may give her the best chance yet for release.
Even if there is a finding of suitability for parole at Tuesday's hearing, freedom would not be immediate. The entire state parole board would review the decision within 120 days and it would then be submitted to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for a final ruling.
Van Houten, 60, remains incarcerated at the California Institution for Women at Frontera, the same prison where another Manson follower, Patricia Krenwinkle, is imprisoned. Susan Atkins, the third woman convicted of murder in the crimes directed by cult leader Manson, died in prison last year after parole officials denied her dying request for freedom.
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Van Houten, 60, remains incarcerated at the California Institution for Women at Frontera...
Poor baby...what has Mrs. La Bianca been doing?
The rest of the Manson clan should join Tookie.
If only the members of the Manson gang had hooked up with a high-class criminal like Billie Ayers, instead of the tradiional convict Charlie Manson, they could have ridden their counter-cultural hatred of “the pigs” to power, respectability, and association with the first Marxist POTUS.
Exactly! I lived there at the time and remember vividly the murders and the fear this sick group caused. They should have all been executed years ago like they were sentenced to and would have been except for the lib CA Supreme Court.
If she should ever be released she’d fit right in as a member of the Obama admin.
Excellent point!
I think she’ll eventually be released. They let that lunatic Squeaky Fromme out, so I’m betting Van Houten will get out as well. Besides, she has the added advantage of an aristocratic sounding name. Fair or not, a lot of people will hear the name and think, “Nah, she’ll never get in trouble again.”
She needs to live out her days right where she is and that is being generous.
Sharon Tate is still dead.
H*ll no. Keep this monster locked up.
Her chances for parole are enhanced by the fact that she has been discipline free since her incarceration in the early 1970s, has positive psychological reports and has been active in self-help groups at the prison including "Golden Girls," a group for elderly women inmates.
She stabbed Rosemary LaBianca many times. To the LA Times, this is a trivial thing.
Rose Bird was A Jerry Brown Appointee!!!
I understand what you’re saying and I fear you could be right but Squeaky was not one of the group sentenced to death for the brutal murders. Don’t get me wrong, Squeaky should not have been paroled either, IMO.
She’s a sociopath who is playing the system.
Squash her head in a vise. What a waste of the parole board’s time and tax payer money. Stab her multiple times.
Rose Bird was a pathetic joke as a Justice and Moonbeam isn’t much better, sure hope he isn’t elected again.
If Governor Moonbeam re-takes his seat, Charles Manson might well be released.
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