[Ppnews] Sara Jane Olson sentence reduction reversed

[Political Prisoner News]

SLA Member Olson to Serve Full Term for Bomb Attempts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041401709.html


Associated Press
Sunday, April 15, 2007; A09

LOS ANGELES -- Sara Jane Olson, the former Symbionese Liberation Army 
fugitive formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, who hid for years as an 
ordinary housewife, must serve her original prison sentence of 14 
years for trying to bomb police cars, a California appeals court 
panel has ruled.

In 2001 Olson pleaded guilty to the 1975 attempts 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 that 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 her husband and three school-age daughters.


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