Judge OKs Hearing on Olson’s Sentence
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A judge this week approved a hearing that could add years to the sentence of Sara Jane Olson, the radical-turned-suburban mother who is in prison for plotting to blow up Los Angeles police cars in 1975.
Olson, a former Symbionese Liberation Army member, was sentenced to 20 years in January and is eligible for parole in 2005.
But California law lets the state Board of Prison Terms reconsider sentences for crimes committed before 1977, when different sentencing guidelines prevailed.
Over Olson’s objections, Superior Court Judge Thomas Cecil agreed to permit a hearing Oct. 16.
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