A California appeals court recommended that Leslie Van Houten, the youngest follower of the “Manson family,” be paroled and released from prison
Leslie Van Houten, a former Charles Manson follower, looks from the window of a sheriff’s van as she left the county court house following her court appearance for sentencing in Los Angeles, on July 21, 1978.The May 30 opinion from a Los Angeles appeals court reverses Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2020 decision blocking Van Houten’s parole,that there is “no evidence to support the Governor’s conclusions” that she was unfit for parole.
“Van Houten has shown extraordinary rehabilitative efforts, insight, remorse, realistic parole plans, support from family and friends, favorable institutional reports, and, at the time of the Governor’s decision, had received four successive grants of parole,” . “Although the Governor states Van Houten’s historical factors ‘remain salient,’ he identifies nothing in the record indicating Van Houten has not successfully addressed those factors through many years of therapy, substance abuse programming, and other efforts.”that she’s gearing up for a lengthy legal battle, as she thinks it’s likely the California Attorney General’s office will ask the state’s Supreme Court to decide next steps for the case.
While Van Houten has not made any public comments about Tuesday’s decision, she expressed the remorse she feels about the 1969 killings at a parolein 2017. “To tell you the truth, the older I get the harder it is to deal with all of this, to know what I did, how it happened,” she said, describing how she’s undergone extensive therapy to deal with this question. “I feel absolutely horrible about it, and I have spent most of my life trying to find ways to live with it.
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