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SLA member to stay imprisoned
By The Associated Press
Published: 04/30/2008

CALIFORNIA - A judge has refused to free a former 1970s radical and longtime fugitive who was sent back to prison days after state corrections officials released her by mistake. Attorneys for former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sarah Jane Olson failed to show that corrections officials acted illegally, and that Olson herself should have realized she was being freed too soon, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cecil said in a ruling released Tuesday.

Olson's lawyers had argued that corrections officials had no authority to re-arrest her after she was mistakenly paroled March 17 after six years in prison. Read more.

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