[Ppnews] LA council votes to keep Sara Jane Olson to remain in prison

[Political Prisoner News]

L.A. council wants former SLA member to remain in prison




By Bill Lindelof - <mailto:blindelof at sacbee.com>blindelof at sacbee.com

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously endorsed a resolution 
calling for former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson 
to remain in prison for the remainder of her sentence.

The resolution, approved on a 15-0 vote Wednesday, also calls for 
Olson to serve a potential parole term within the state, according to 
a news release from the Los Angeles Police Protective League.

Olson was paroled March 17 after serving half of a 12-year sentence 
for the attempted bombings of two Los Angeles police cars in 1975 and 
for acting as the getaway driver in a fatal bank robbery in which a 
Carmichael woman, Myrna Opsahl, was killed the same year.

Olson was intercepted at Los Angeles International Airport as she 
prepared to fly back home to Minnesota and then re-arrested after 
state prison officials said they had miscalculated her release date.

A motion filed in Sacramento Superior Court by her lawyers claims 
Olson's due process rights were violated when she was returned to 
prison to serve at least another year behind bars. Her lawyers say 
that Olson should be freed from prison because corrections officials 
had no authority to re-arrest her.




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