Posted on 04/14/2007 7:00:13 AM PDT by blam
Former SLA Member's Sentence Restored
Saturday April 14, 2007 2:01 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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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Boy, that must have been torture.
Too bad Angela Davis isn’t in the cell next to her.
6 years for killing a customer while robbing a bank? Good deal. Maybe next time I get a traffic ticket I can claim to be an ex-SLA member too!
What are the odds that Olson/Soliah has ever felt a moment’s remorse or lost a moment’s sleep for having helped to murder an innocent bank customer?
Joanne Chesimard, currently of Havana, Cuba.
She should have turned herself in during the Clinton Administration.
She would have gotten a pardon
Slim to none.
sickningly true
...and a book deal...
That’s my guess, too...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kathleen Ann Soliah (born January 16, 1947) is an American woman who was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in the 1970s. She has lived most of her life under the alias Sara Jane Olson. In 2001, she pled guilty to two counts of possessing explosives with intent to murder.
1 Symbionese Liberation Army
1.1 Crocker National Bank robbery and Myrna Opsahl murder
1.2 Los Angeles Police Department bombs
2 Underground existence and capture 3 Plea controversy
4 Sentencing in explosives charges
5 Sentencing in Opsahl murder
6 Present location
7 Judge reduces sentence
8 Notes and References
9 Further reading
10 External links
Symbionese Liberation Army
After graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Soliah moved to Berkeley, California with her boyfriend, Jim Kilgore. There, she met Angela Atwood at an acting audition where they both won lead roles. They became inseparable during the play's run. Atwood tried to sponsor Soliah into the SLA. Regardless, Soliah and Jim Kilgore, along with her brother Steve and sister Josephine followed the SLA closely. When Atwood and other core members of the SLA were killed in Watts, California, the Soliahs organized memorial rallies.
Crocker National Bank robbery and Myrna Opsahl murder
On April 21, 1975, SLA members robbed the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, California, killing Myrna Opsahl, a bank customer, in the process. Soliah reportedly kicked a pregnant bank teller before exiting the bank. The woman lost her child as a result of her injury. Patty Hearst, who admitted to being a getaway driver, stated that Soliah was one of the actual robbers.
Several rounds of 9mm ammunition spilled on the floor during the robbery bore manufacturing marks that matched that of ammunition loaded in a 9mm Browning high power automatic pistol found by police in Soliah’s bedroom dresser drawer at the SLA safehouse on Precita Avenue in San Francisco.
Sara Jane Olson
Quite amazing, considering that our attorney general is Jerry Brown, who was notoriously soft on crime when he was governor.
Murder while committing an armed robbery is a death penalty offense in many states which have the death penalty.
It’s a shame that the judge in this case ignored the serious nature of the offense and allowed the passage of time to reduce the punishment. Even if not the death penalty, 14 years seems a little light to me.
It’s not as though she had remorse and turned herself in and deserved some consideration for a lighter sentence.
Guess what freepers- !!
She has already done a book to raise cash (guess what it is called !)
#2 and this is the big one, Sara Jane olsen worked for the Demonrat party- on quite a few campaigns-
And one of our new congressman has called for her release!
Guess who said that-!
There are omissions EVERYDAY in the mainstram media-to undermine the U.S. and normal-Good citzens.
Looks like 2 murders she is responsible.
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