Judge rules against defense in SLA case

Sac Bee ^ | 8/8/02 | AP, Bee Staff

[NormsRevenge]

Defense lawyers in a 1975 Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery-murder case received a setback Thursday when a judge promised to release tapes of their clients' prison phone calls and social visits to government investigators.

The judge's oral decision applies to 21 telephone calls made by SLA defendant Michael Bortin from Portland's Multnomah County Jail earlier this year, tapes of social visits to three ex-SLA members in Sacramento County Jail and a list of who visited them socially and when.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bye bye, Sarah Jane.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ya know, it's pretty cool when these people think they've gotten away with it, and 30 years later these allegedly progressive, enlightened smart people screw up and get caught :0)