Posted on 07/23/2016 9:48:09 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister
California Gov. Jerry Brown denied parole for the youngest follower of murderous cult leader Charles Manson who is serving a life sentence for killing a wealthy grocer and his wife more than 40 years ago.
Brown overturned the recommendation of a parole board on Friday that found Leslie Van Houten was no-longer the violent young woman who committed a gruesome murder and was now fit for release.
She has completed college degrees and been a model inmate.
The Democratic governor acknowledged her success in prison and her youth at the time of the murders.
However, he wrote in his decision that she failed to explain how she transformed from an upstanding teen to a killer.
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I can't believe that Moonbeam did something right.
I don’t know.
I can. Leslie murdered a member of Hollywood and the wife of a prestigious director. Naturally, there would have been outrage among the Hollywood elite and of course, the Mansons ruined the hippie movement.
My father-in-law’s family grew up with the Labiaca family, knew them.
No. She didn't. She was not even at the scene the night it happened.
Leslie Van Houten stabbed Rosemary LaBianca 14 times. Will Manson follower go free?
[[They should have been sent to Old Sparky 40 years ago!]]
You beat me to it!
Now liberals are saying that being in jail a long time, particularly solitary confinement, is cruel and unusual punishment. Pretty soon nobody will be jailed at all, if liberals have their way.
Okay, wrong act. It still will never justify that she ended up doing what she did.
It’s a shame that there’s a hole in your father-in-law’s life because of all the Mansion butchery.
“It’s a shame that there’s a hole in your father-in-law’s life because of all the Mansion butchery.”
His family and the LaBiancas were members of the LA Italian American community. FIL was WWII combat vet, too. He died years ago, but other family reassure me their family knew the murdered people.
Sad. Manson was a product of revolving door criminal justice and sentencing system.
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