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Judge Orders Re-sentencing of Sara Jane Olson

HeadlineJul 14, 2004

A Sacramento judge yesterday threw out the 14-year-prison sentence of former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson on Monday. Olson, who changed her named from Kathleen Soliah, was arrested in 1999 after living underground for 25 years. In 2001 she pleaded guilty to taking part in two attempts to bomb the Los Angeles Police Department in 1975. She was initially sentenced to 5 years and four months, but a state judge increased that to fourteen years in 2002. On Monday Superior Court Judge Thomas Cecil ruled that there had been no analysis of how the state Board of Prison Terms decided 14 years was an appropriate sentence. Under the decision, Olson must be granted a new sentencing hearing within 60 days. The judge’s ruling only affected her first sentence. In January 2003, Olson was sentenced to six years for her role in a botched bank robbery that killed a Sacramento woman. She was one of five SLA members sentenced for that robbery.

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