Posted on 03/22/2008 11:06:24 AM PDT by Iron Munro
The release of former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson from prison has angered Jon Opsahl, whose mother was gunned down in a Carmichael bank by the SLA.
Myrna Opsahl was shot to death in the lobby of a Carmichael bank during an April 21, 1975, SLA bank robbery.
After serving six years in prison for his mother's death and for trying to bomb police cars, Olson is now free. She was released Monday from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. "She's out of prison too soon by far," Jon Opsahl said Friday. "It's another in a series of slaps in the face of victims by the justice system."
On Friday morning, when Opsahl's daughter turned on the family TV in Southern California, he found out about Olson's release.
"There it was on TV: 'Sara Jane Olson has been released from prison,' " Opsahl said. "That's a good four years before when I thought she would be released."
Her release came as a shock, he said. "It was a surprise."
He said he plans to call the Sacramento district attorney for more information.
Bill Sessa, state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman, said Olson's sentence was administered in exactly the same way as any other inmate.
In 2001, Olson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the attempted bombings of Los Angeles police cars in 1975 for the SLA, the terrorist group that also kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.
Olson also pleaded guilty in 2003 to second-degree murder in connection with the 1975 shooting death of Opsahl. She was serving a concurrent, six-year sentence in that case.
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She was actually sentenced to 20 years (two consecutive 10-years-to-life terms) but after a series of appeals and automatic time off for good behavior it was reduced to only 14 years.
But she ends up being released early, serving only SIX YEARS out of the original 20 year sentence.
Why was she released early?
What the heck has happened to this country - to the people we trust to run government for us?
Where is the sense of justice, of proportion, of right versus wrong?
The unborn infant she killed and the mother of this man deserve more than this.
Now Sara Jane Olson can join Obama’s campaign committee. The DemonRats will welcome her with bloody open arms. Any enemy of America, is a friend of theirs.
“After serving six years in prison for his mother’s death and for trying to bomb police cars....”
Six years in jail for murder. California becomes more like Europe every day.
Ok so let me get this math straight. It takes about 25 years to put her in jail and 6 for her to get out?
Dude, you live in CA. until you get out there and do something about it, this result is not a surprise to the rest of us.
Bitch!! I hope the remainder of her life is Hell!! She should have done the whole sentence due to the fact that she was a fugitive all those years, and got to live the life that she denied Mrs. Opsahl.
Just look out your window and look down and you find where sense of justice has been tossed.
Did Obama put in a good word for Olson? When are they going to meet?
It's the end of the world as we know it...
There’s an old saying:
“The only justice is vigilante justice.”
I hope the bitch guts gunned down.
Sheesh!
Olsen will probably end up with a cushy tenured professorship, just like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn of the Weathermen did.
It would be short, that's all I gotta say about that. Take my father and only do 6 years in the slammer? Not damned likely. I'd come for the rest of 'em myself.
Hey, don’t forget this...Members of Olson’s church in Minneapolis raised money to cover her $1 million bail. A fund-raising cookbook was issued, featuring Olson on the cover of “America’s Most Wanted Recipes.”
You'd get more time for killing a Spotted Owl.
So a "church" is glorifying a murderer?
Also, of course, Ayers is a mentor and good friend of B. Hussein Obama.
You bet.
That’s sick.
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