Governor Denies Parole for Former Manson Follower Leslie Van Houten

[Crabby Appleton]

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]

1. Good.

She deserves to die in jail, she doesn't get it, what she did was absolutely wrong.

[Glorfindel]

2. Good. None of those murdering monsters should ever be considered for parole.

Some people are just evil, and that's the truth.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. For goodness sake

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]

4. I agree

Enough. She's a harmless old woman now. Let her go.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Sometimes even liars speak the truth

[philosslayer]

6. Twice in a week

Wtf are you talking about ?

[lilsourgoose]

7. Nah

"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]

8. Those facts of the crime only mean something to you because of the Manson coverage and mystique

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]

9. That was Krenwinkel not Van Houten

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Krenwinkel

[Skittles]

11. she didn't do that

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]

12. If this wasn't an election year full knee jerk law and order paranoids, she might have had ...

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a chance forty-some years is plenty enough.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. This isn't the middle ages

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.