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• In 2002, Olson - who formally changed her name in 1999 - pleaded guilty to both crimes, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempted murder in connection with the pipe bomb incident. In 2008, she was briefly released when California's parole board miscalculated her parole eligibility; Olson...
"She fled the state, changed her name, and lived a leisurely life of lies and deception in Minnesota, while the children of Myrna Opsahl were forced to grow up without a mother." -Jeff Denham, a California state senator, in a letter to Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's governor, that requested Olson...
Since reports of the pending hearing surfaced on March 6, the Justice Department has begun to gather victims, saying on its website that they have the right to be "reasonably heard" at any public proceeding "involving release, plea, sentencing or any parole proceeding." The posting requires notice "prior to a...
More than two-thirds of former inmates are packed off to prison again within three years, but about half of these are due to technical violations like not reporting in time to parole officers or failing drug tests. Parole and probation officers are typically funded just enough to be able...
In 1989, the circuit court in Escambia County, Fla., sentenced 13-year-old Joe Sullivan to a lifetime sentence for rape of a 72-year-old woman, with no possibility of parole. The grounds for Sullivan’s conviction were shaky. First, the trial only lasted one day. Second...