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| Prison escapee LeFevre to be freed |
| By Detroit Free Press |
| Published: 01/29/2009 |
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MICHIGAN - The Michigan Parole Board gave Susan LeFevre her other life back on Wednesday, agreeing to set the 54-year-old California mom and longtime fugitive free on May 19. LeFevre, a Saginaw native who lived in San Diego for 32 years as Marie Walsh before her arrest last spring, will be released barring major misbehavior in prison in the meantime, said Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan. Her case gained national attention after LeFevre, a mother of three, was arrested at home last year by police acting on a tip. LeFevre had served about a year of her 10- to 20-year sentence for selling heroin to an undercover police officer (Mike Robinson, who later became director of the Michigan State Police) when she escaped the old Detroit House of Corrections in 1976. At her release, she will have served about two years, punishment that she and her lawyers argued was more than adequate for a relatively small drug crime for someone who had lived a crime-free life on the outside. Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael Thomas, whose office pursued the original charges, disagreed. "I don't understand it," Thomas said Wednesday. "I think it's unfair to the 48,000 people in prison, almost all of whom will serve their minimum sentence." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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