Sara Jane Olson, the former Symbionese Liberation Army member, who was discovered living as a house wife in St. Paul, could be back in Minnesota by the end of the month.
Olson becomes eligible for parole March 17. In February, she applied for permission to serve her parole in Minnesota, rather than in California where she served her sentence. Olson's husband and daughters still live in Minnesota.
Minnesota and California must both approve her request.
The Ramsey County Corrections Department is reviewing it now, on behalf of the state department of corrections. The state has until March 26 to issue a decision.
The LA Times is reporting the president of the Los Angeles Police union, Paul M. Weber, is urging the state attorney general to make Olson stay in California.
Both states agreed to allow Olson to serve her parole in Minnesota last year when an error calculating her sentence allowed her to be mistakenly released. She was re-arrested as she was about to board a plane and forced to serve another year in prison.
In 2001, Olson, formerly Kathleen Soliah, pleaded guilty to possessing explosives with intent to murder in connection with the 1975 attempted bombings of Los Angeles police cars. Olson was originally charged in the crime in 1975, but she vanished before she could stand trial.
She was arrested in 1999 after her case appeared on the television show America's Most Wanted.
In 2003 she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for another 1975 crime: the shooting death of a woman during an SLA bank robbery in Sacramento.
Subject: Sara Jane Olson could serve her parole in Minn. 
Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:51 am
