On March 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pm, Rusty said:

Well guess what..she heads back to prison to serve the term she was given..OOPS! They made a huge boo boo!

At least we can agree on how delicous steak is, right?

UCLA Primate Freedom, the Animal Liberation Brigade, the Animal Liberation Front

Can we do experiments on these ‘animals’?

But, anyways, no, I don’t consider being a fugitive from justice to be a crime in and of itself.

She was given a specific sentence. That 14 years was her good behavior time..

Huh? Do you mean the sentence was especially light because she was no longer a violent criminal? I agree with that. Meaning I agree with your observation as well as agree with the sentence.

And what’s the benefit of keeping her in jail anyways?

Outside of what Peejz said, that is. Changing her identity and remaining hidden without coming forward is in fact criminal.

Besides, can you tell me for certain her terror days are behind her? I don’t care if she is in her 60’s, she can still aid and abet, as well as direct operations. Remember — alot has happened since she went in; she may feel like fighting the administration like Code Pinko Commies do.

She really should have at least served her entire sentence. Maybe that’s the cause of recidivism — bad guys know they won’t be back in all that long, so they don’t care. Perhaps if they knew they would go away for a long time….

She was given a specific sentence. That 14 years was her good behavior time..

Time to move on? Tell that to Myrna Opsahl’s family.

And Peejz, if she isn’t going to hurt anyone, what’s the point of keeping her in jail? Did she serve enough time for her crimes? Probably not. But the situation in front of us is a woman in her 60s who hasn’t committed a crime in 30 years. Time to move on.

6 years for the murder of Myrna Opsahl and attempted murder of police officers! You think that is justice? How about she spend 23 years behind bars for the years she spent as a fugitive, and 27 years for the amount of time she was a fugitive until the Opsahl family got their day in court.

That’s 50 years..I’d be happy with that, but I don’t get to make the decision.

What I do know is that she was given a minimum sentece of 14 years, in 2004, judge said there was “no analysis” of how the state Board of Prison Terms decided 14 years was appropriate and threw out the sentence. Her sentence was converted to five years, four months. An appeals court panel restored her full sentence as of April 12, 2007. They ruled that a lower court did not follow procedure when they allowed Olson to appeal.

So based on that, I’d someone needs to start answering some questions!

Kathleen Soliah, a former Palmdale resident, served about half of her 12-year term for her role in a plot to blow up LAPD cars.

Context. I meant her entire sentence for second degree murder.

a concurrent sentence (in which the period of imprisonment equals the length of the longest sentence).

She was sentenced to six years to be served concurrently with her jail time for attempted murder. Since she spent seven years in jail, those six years were already covered.

Just wondering, but would you prefer she spend her entire life in jail? And if someone is clearly no longer a threat to society, how long should we keep that person incarcerated?

Rehabilitation is one of the purposes of jail by the way. Why else are they allowed to work off site and take classes?

Rehab? California state prisons have a 70% recidivism rate. Yup, rehab is the wonder cure for violent prisoners. BTW, Soliah was such a risky prisoner that she was on constant watch, as in being counted seven times a day and restricted activities. In other words she was too risky for your happy off-site classes etc. because she was a flight risk and convicted 2nd degree murderer.
I will give you one thing, re. rehab, drug users with no violent histories should be forced in drug rehab (1 yr. min.), given job skills training for the outside world and also given help finding employers that take ex-cons.

Rehabilitation is one of the purposes of jail by the way. Why else are they allowed to work off site and take classes?

This rehabilitation that you speak of is granted to some prisoners, not all.

And I have one word for you – recidivism.