Governor Denies Parole for Former Manson Follower Leslie Van Houten
Source: NBC News
Governor Jerry Brown on Friday denied parole for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, who was convicted of the 1969 killings of grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca at their Los Feliz home.The decision comes a month after Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey urged Brown to deny her parole.
"Despite overwhelming evidence of her involvement in these two horrible murders, inmate Van Houten has consistently minimized her conduct during current and past hearings," the county's top prosecutor wrote in a five-page letter to Gov. Jerry Brown that includes a photo of the victims with their daughter three years before they were killed.
"In reality, she clearly lacks insight, genuine remorse and an understanding of the magnitude of her crimes. The viciousness of the murders, the relationship of those murders to the effort to incite the "Helter Skelter" race war and Van Houten's attempts to minimize her criminal responsibility make her an unreasonable risk of danger to society,'' Lacey wrote in the letter dated June 24 and made public Tuesday.
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Archae
(46,335 posts)She deserves to die in jail, she doesn't get it, what she did was absolutely wrong.
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)Some people are just evil, and that's the truth.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Same crime no Manson name attached she would have been released in 1992.
She has the same right to a fair parole process as anyone else. This is beyond unfair.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)Enough. She's a harmless old woman now. Let her go.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)philosslayer
(3,076 posts)Wtf are you talking about ?
lilsourgoose
(92 posts)"Same crime" without Manson would've still meant she scrawled the words "DEATH TO PIGS" and "HEALTER SKELTER" on the wall in the victim's blood.
I reckon anyone who does that is very unlikely to get parole.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)She was nineteen at the time of the crime and was mostly a secondary player in a group murder. She would have been out 20 years ago without the notoriety. The parole board recommended her parole, for goodness sake. How many prisoners in prison for 45 years get a governor rejection with a parole board recommendation? It's not a normal proceeding, which means it's not a fair proceeding.
edbermac
(15,940 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)I think it was Krenwinkle, who was also involved in the murders at the Tate house
Ms. Van Houten was rehabilitated decades ago - it is the notoriety of the crime that keeps her in prison, and that should not officially be part of the justice system
marble falls
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a chance forty-some years is plenty enough.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)Where you are thrown in a cell until you die. Considering how young she was and being under a cult leader I think she's paid for her crime.