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Free by Error, Ex-Radical Back in Prison
AP WaPo ^ | Saturday, March 22, 2008; 11:01 PM | ANDREW DALTON

Posted on 03/22/2008 9:31:44 PM PDT by MindBender26

LOS ANGELES -- Just days after her release on parole, a former 1970s radical was headed back to prison Saturday to serve at least one more year after corrections officials said a miscalculation resulted in her early release.

Criticism over the early release from prison Monday of Sara Jane Olson, who lived as a fugitive for years in Minnesota, spurred a review of her sentence and the timing of her parole, Scott Kernan, the chief deputy secretary for the California Department of Corrections, said at a news conference. The review revealed that a 2004 miscalculation led to the former Symbionese Liberation Army member being released a year too early, he said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: sarajaneolson; sla
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To: torchthemummy
There was a guy in Texas a few years ago that was sentenced to death. On the night he was supposed to be executed, after they hooked him up to the tubes, they got word to wait for a last second appeal decision. They left the guy hooked up for three hours, then D/Ced him and took him back to his cell. The next morning the appeal came back rejected and so they nailed him the next night.

I don't remember the details, but that had to suck.

21 posted on 03/22/2008 10:52:28 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
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To: MindBender26

Trying to give a damn...... nope, I have no sympathy. Let’s not hear any whining from her lawyers either. The murdered victims of the SLA did not get an “extra year” of anything, only bloody death.

I wonder if some lib in the CA parole/prison system tried to spring her early with this ‘mistake’ and then the matter was re-examined with all the fuss. How on earth could they not be ultra-careful about when to release a frickin’ terrorist? Oh, right it is the People’s Republic of Californication.

Why is she getting so much less than her 20 years anyway? What a disgrace to have a convicted terrorist and long-time fugitive serving only a few years.....


22 posted on 03/22/2008 10:57:12 PM PDT by Enchante (Obama: You think Hillary's Ruthless? Hell, I'll Run Over My Own Grandmother to Get Elected!!)
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To: pepsionice
Its odd how they miscalculated this...

I'm kinda thinkin' that they didn't, but after pressure from police and public, they found a loophole. To which I say, "yay!"

23 posted on 03/23/2008 12:12:13 AM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: sionnsar

After Accomplice to murder, Plotting to blow up a police car, kidnapping Patty Hearst, Fugitive from the law for 24 years?

I’d tell her that to her face.


24 posted on 03/23/2008 1:20:28 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
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To: Fireone

I agree. These were not kids from broken homes or poor neighborhoods that formed the SLA. Why the light sentence to begin with?


25 posted on 03/23/2008 2:05:11 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Fireone

“She should be locked up for twenty, at least, with no early out.”

She should be shanked.


26 posted on 03/23/2008 2:06:38 AM PDT by Levante
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To: MindBender26

Schadenfreude

27 posted on 03/23/2008 2:15:23 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: MindBender26

There is a poll up on CNN’s home page in regards to this. The majority of viewers think she should be free. What a surprise. Please Freep.


28 posted on 03/23/2008 4:02:02 AM PDT by RU88
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To: MindBender26

And Symbionesia still ain’t free. What a wasted life.


29 posted on 03/23/2008 5:19:02 AM PDT by CH3CN
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To: MindBender26

“Sarah Jane Olson” is her cuddly, Minnesota-nice alias. May she rot in hell.


30 posted on 03/23/2008 5:21:25 AM PDT by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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To: Lijahsbubbe

“Olson, 61, was detained at Los Angeles International Airport” Should have taken the train.......


31 posted on 03/23/2008 5:34:51 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: MindBender26

too bad ~ so sad.....

as baretta and bird once said....don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!!!!!!


32 posted on 03/23/2008 5:44:36 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: sionnsar

Not becoming? “Tough luck, b*tch” is an apt sentiment, if you’re not sanctimonious.


33 posted on 03/23/2008 6:44:05 AM PDT by Scarpetta (e pluribus victim)
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To: MindBender26
And the bad news is that Emily Harris, the trigger puller, will be paroled this year.
34 posted on 03/23/2008 6:49:31 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: MindBender26

Why do they use the terms radical instead of terrorist?


35 posted on 03/23/2008 6:50:45 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: MindBender26

Music to my ears!


36 posted on 03/23/2008 7:52:54 AM PDT by JDoutrider (No 2nd Amendment... Know Tyranny)
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To: Scarpetta
Yes. We've seen how much more rude & crude Free Republic has become over the years. Before long, it'll be wallowing in the muck right alongside DU.

No standards, no graces, anymore anywhere -- not even among the self-proclaimed defenders of this civilization.

Cheers...

37 posted on 03/23/2008 8:40:03 AM PDT by Clint Williams (Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters!)
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