Manson Family Member Leslie Van Houten to Be Released From Prison in Weeks, Her Attorney Says
thewrap.comVan Houten’s attorney said Friday.The California Parole Board had recommended Van Houten be released in 2022, a recommendation California Gov.
Gavin Newsom vetoed. On May 30 of this year, an appeals court overturned Newsom’s veto and ordered Van Houten to be freed.Newsom had until July 12 to challenge that ruling, but ultimately opted not to do so. “The Governor is disappointed by the Court of Appeal’s decision to release Ms.
Van Houten but will not pursue further action as efforts to further appeal are unlikely to succeed,” Newsom’s spokesperson said in a statement to NBC on Friday. “The California Supreme Court accepts appeals in very few cases, and generally does not select cases based on this type of fact-specific determination,”Van Houten was convicted in 1971 of killing Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, whose murders were just two of those carried out in August 1969 by followers of cult leader Charles Manson.
She was originally sentenced to death but her sentence was commuted to life in prison after the California Supreme Court ruled the state’s death penalty unconstitutional.
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