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  • Judge says SLA member Sara Jane Olson must remain in prison

    04/29/2008 12:53:04 PM PDT · by SmithL · 16 replies · 76+ views
    AP via SFGate ^ | 4/29/8 | DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
    A Sacramento County judge has declined to free former 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson after she was sent back to prison following a mixup by state corrections officials. Olson was freed in March from the women's prison in Chowchilla but was quickly re-arrested after officials discovered they had miscalculated her release date by one year. Her attorneys then asked Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cecil to order her release, arguing that state corrections officials had no authority to re-arrest her. They also claimed Olson's due-process rights were violated. In a ruling made public Tuesday, the judge says Olson had...