Posted on 02/05/2014 10:36:19 AM PST by nickcarraway
Police say Judy Lynn Hayman escaped from a Michigan prison in 1977
After more than 36 years on the run, a woman who police say escaped from a Michigan prison has been arrested in San Diego.
Woman Arrested 36 Years After Prison Escape: PD Judy Lynn Hayman escaped from a Michigan prison in 1977, and this week, police say they've found her living a double life in San Diego. NBC 7's Lauren Lee reports. Woman Arrested 36 Years After Prison Escape: PD Woman Arrested 36 Years After Prison... More Photos and Videos On April 14, 1977, Judy Lynn Hayman escaped from the Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Washtenaw County, Mich., south of Ann Arbor.
Then 23 years old, Hayman had been serving a minimum sentence of 16 months for attempted larceny, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections website.
Since then, corrections officials had not given up their hunt for her, and this year, their search led them to San Diego.
San Diego Police officials said they got a call from Michigan corrections, telling them the address and description of a person they believed to be Hayman.
When police contacted her, officers said she identified herself as Jamie Lewis and had documents supporting her claim.
However, further investigation revealed that the woman was indeed Hayman, SDPD said.
The now 60-year-old fugitive was arrested Monday around 3:15 p.m. at 3501 1st Street and taken to the Las Colinas jail, where she faces extradition to Michigan.
An SDPD officer said she admitted to being Hayman.
The suspect's son, Aaron, told NBC 7 he is surprised and worried for his mom, though he did not confirm or deny if he knew that she was leading a double life. He is one of three sons.
Aaron said his mother lived a life outside her home in Hillcrest, going to PTA meeting and church.
A neighbor who lived next door to Hayman described her as a quiet person who seemed paranoid and kept to herself. They would talk about both being cancer survivors.
The corrections website shows that Hayman has gone by other aliases, including Brenda Bushmer, Judy Kayman and more.
Practically speaking, public policy HAS been changed. The law is enforced in a very haphazard way in relation to how it is written.
No, the common sentiment here is that everyone has the moral obligation to flout unjust or stupid laws and to resist overly-enthusiastic Law Enforcement Officers but respect Peace Officers.
(There are hardly any Peace Officers).
Well, it seems she had good reason to be paranoid.
Escaping from prison is the duty of every prisoner of war.
If I were locked up for certain stupid things today (like refusing to comply with Obamacare), I would deem myself a prisoner of war and resolve to escape.
“Should I be looking over my shoulder?”
I heard the other day they arresting people in Tx for overdue library books. So, be careful!
Agreed. Utter waste of money for this crime.
Ok, so there’s this school of thought named Law and Economics (I’m not patronizing you). The people who favor some sort of expiration-date on convictions/imprisonment should ask themselves, will their proposed “solution” increase or decrease the incentive for people to escape, or not?
The two statements are not in conflict. :D
The Huron Valley Womens facility is in Washtenaw county. And wasn’t open 37 years ago. Other than that the information was totally factual.
CC
In the third grade I accidentally took a girls Peppermint Patty after getting our desks mixed up. The PP was supposed to be an award to the student who did the best on a test. I can still see the nun, with the sobbing girl by her side, screaming at the class demanding to know who took Mary’s candy. Think I was going to stand up and admit it? Almost sixty years later, I think that nun (she’d be about 100 years old by now) might still be looking for the culprit. I sleep poorly at night shivering in terror worrying about that vengeful nun.
Apparently not. I'm surprised, especially wince the original case was Larceny.
Here's a similar story about a guy who was in the slammer for Burglary, and escaped from a Detroit area jail in 1969. They granted him an "Administrative Discharge" because he's over 80, so no S of L on Prison Escape.
I have to wonder if this is really worth all the expense involved. Unless she waives extradition, a governor’s warrant will have to be done. Then the prosecuting attorney’s office (of the county that sentenced her) will have to pay for either MDOC or the US Marshals to transport her back. I wonder what she stole to make her such a high-priority escapee. Yes, I’ll read the full story..somewhere!
If I get convicted and sent to prison for trying to steal your dog, will you forgive me after a few years?
I don’t disagree that the ideal situation would be reasonable laws that were enforced in a mostly predictable fashion. What I’m saying is that in a complex society like ours, laws accumulate to such an extent that they can’t all be enforced, and many of the laws on the books aren’t all that sensible.
Judges are also supposed to have some discretion. Unfortunately, liberal judges have so abused that discretion that he public cried out for minimum sentencing laws and “three strikes” laws. I agree with these, usually, but the third strike shouldn’t be counted for stealing a loaf of bread.
Finally, we come to our current executive branch. It won’t enforce laws it doesn’t like in the immigration and voting arenas. Why should this woman (assuming she’s kept her nose clean for the past 36 years, which might be a stretch) receive the full weight of the law, when so many do not? Inconsistent application of the laws — unconstitutional on its face — breeds contempt for the law.
The statute for limitations applies for the time after the crime is committed until the time one is charged.
A prison sentence is not completed until...you do the time.
She won’t be charged for the crime that got her in prison in the first place. She’ll be charged, at the beginning, with this:
750.193 Breaking prison, ...
Sec. 193.
(1) A person imprisoned in a prison of this state who breaks prison and escapes, ..., is guilty of a felony, punishable by further imprisonment for not more than 5 years. The term of the further imprisonment shall be served after the termination, pursuant to law, of the sentence or sentences then being served. A prisoner who breaks prison, ... shall be charged with that offense and tried in the courts of the county in which the prison or penal facility to which the prisoner was committed or transferred is located at the time of the breaking, escape, or attempt to break or escape.
Yes, absolutely.
However, escaping from prison is also a crime, with attendant prison time typically added to the existing sentence.
While the law requires that the convict return to prison to serve out her sentence, it may be the case that the statute of limitations has run out on her later offense of prison-breaking. I am uncertain on this point.
BUT, she took a plea for Attempted Larceny from a Building, which probably means she stole property. Because she was sentenced on a plea, we can assume her original charge was Larceny in a Building. I don't know if the original plea will disincline the prosecutor from offering her another plea agreement.
I do see from my good friend OTIS that she had at least 6 aliases...my theory is that some family member or victim that didn't get their restitution has been keeping LE informed on her whereabouts and name changes. Sweet!
“You’re not paranoid if they really are out to get you.”
Dr. Johnny Fever, 1978
Sure, I'll forgive you just as soon as you give my dog back. Me forgiving you for your crime has nothing to do with the state prosecuting and punishing you for it.
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