SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A former 1970s radical jailed days after her release from prison should be freed immediately because state corrections officials had no right to order her re-arrested, her attorneys argued in a court motion filed Tuesday.
The state’s Board of Parole Hearings violated former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson’s due process rights when it ordered her re-arrested and sent back to prison for another year, the motion filed in Sacramento County Superior Court claims.
Olson, 61, was paroled March 17 after serving six years in prison for the attempted bombings of Los Angeles police cars in the 1970s and the shooting death of a customer during a bank robbery in 1975.
Parole board officials say they discovered Friday that they miscalculated Olson’s parole eligibility and that she shouldn’t have been eligible for parole for another year.
Olson was intercepted at the Los Angeles airport Friday night as she was about to fly home to Minnesota.
