49 Comments:
Damn, I was so looking forward to seeing Kathleen Soliah on stage again. Twins City theater has been hurt the most by this injustice.
»» Submitted by Cranky in NE at 10:44 AM on March 23
She was informed while waiting for her flight, not during it.
»» Submitted by singersongwriter at 10:48 AM on March 23
If there's any justice, she should be home for the holidays. They can't let this slide.
»» Submitted by The Rat at 10:52 AM on March 23
How do people still have faith in our justice system if mistakes like that still happen? Isn't this elementary level math we're deal with here?
»» Submitted by hb at 12:59 PM on March 23
What a drag. We've alredy had a couple of days of all the old dusty hippies saying things like "it's about time" and other crackpot jive from the pretend revolutionaries, and now we're going to have to hear it all over again when they let her out for real.
This morning alone I heard MPR report this story in three different newscasts. Each time, the story was slightly redone, each time reminding us that she was a progressive activist/actor/mother and part of the minivan set. None of the three stories mentioned that she plead guilty to and was convicted on a murder charge.
Here's my idea of probation - every time one of Soliah's pals gets quoted saying "oh, that was so long ago, why can't we just move on" I get to burn Myrna Opsahl's name in thier yards.
»» Submitted by Octaneboy at 2:01 PM on March 23
You must have a fair amount of time on your hands.
How about a little perspective here. Might it be that she lies somewhere Osama bin Laden and a cookbook-writing soccer mom?
»» Submitted by The Rat at 2:12 PM on March 23
She is a convicted murderer. Who gives a shit if she's also a soccer mom? She should stay in jail until her sentence is up.
»» Submitted by JJ at 2:15 PM on March 23
I wish we were as concerned about people wrongly imprisoned as we are about Kathleen Soliah. She will be welcomed backed to a upper-class life and her sophist friends will treat her as a heroine.
»» Submitted by Crank in NE at 3:03 PM on March 23
Dang it....Dawkins and the rest of the DFL gang were going to hold a free picnic for her at Sandy Pappas house next week!
»» Submitted by Big G at 4:03 PM on March 23
Think about the kid whose mom was killed in the bank. Then, the dad is the emergency room tech that tries to save this woman as she dies.
Way to go Sarah Jane! You killed a little boy's mom and took a man's wife away. Think of all the pain. That is rough.
Six years? How about life in prison?
»» Submitted by She is a terrorist at 4:14 PM on March 23
Maybe she should have told each of her kids when they turned 4, "Mommy may get pulled out of your lives at a moment's notice! Goodnight!"
When you're on the run for murder having kids is a bit irresponsible, yes?
»» Submitted by Yes She Is at 4:34 PM on March 23
I agree that it sucks to think you're paroled and then get yanked back into prison, but I fully support her ass being in jail and the fact that she managed to live a productive life while dodging her punishment, doesn't mean shit.
»» Submitted by »»» aliecat at 6:49 PM on March 23
My bad about when she was told. Still sucks, though.
»» Submitted by »»» acalhoun at 9:33 PM on March 23
It "sucks" to wait an hour to get at table at some trendoid Uptown restaurant.
I don't know what it would feels like to learn that the people in power told you that you had paid your debt to society, but the Police Union leaned on us, so you have to go back for a year.
»» Submitted by The Rat at 9:41 PM on March 23
I don't know what it would feels like to learn that the people in power told you that you had paid your debt to society, but the Police Union leaned on us, so you have to go back for a year.
What a surprise, trying to kill cops makes them angry. Maybe they should throw a party for Olson.
»» Submitted by Cranky in NE at 9:59 PM on March 23
That's ridiculous. I'm not surprised. I understand what they're saying. They have leverage, let 'em use it.
I wanna understand how dangerous a person she was, or is. When you're 60 years old, one year means a lot.
This woman might be a jerk, but I don't think she's Stone Evil.
»» Submitted by The Rat at 10:11 PM on March 23
If she hadn't fled, the prosecution would have let her turn states evidence in the case and would have never served a day in jail. Let's remember that she wasn't the one that pulled the trigger and people go to jail for a lot less time, if any time, for killing someone while drunk driving.
»» Submitted by Mpls Simpleton at 8:25 AM on March 24
Setting aside issus of her character and her punishment for a moment, her lawyers may have a good point about her recent arrest.
What crime did she commit? (since being released) Violating her parole? Jailbreaking? You can't arrest someone -- even a notorious felon recently released from prison -- without due cause.
»» Submitted by »»» justpbob at 8:34 AM on March 24
What they are saying is that she should not have been released since the parole board made a mistake. The article in the paper yesterday (Strib or NYT I forget) mentioned that the parole laws have changed so many times since the time this crime happened that no one is sure which ones actually apply.
With 1 in every 100 Americans in prison shouldn't we really be letting out the people with little to no chance of commiting further crimes?
»» Submitted by Mpls Simpleton at 8:48 AM on March 24
What they are saying is that she should not have been released since the parole board made a mistake.
I know -- but the question remains -- on what charge was she arrested? The parole board's mistake does not equal probable cause for arrest.
»» Submitted by »»» justpbob at 9:08 AM on March 24
Why do we give two poops about what bad local theater director Wendy Knox thinks about this?
Why does the Strib insist on calling her (Soliah) by her assumed (fake) name?
She is a murderer and a terrorist, who was ON THE RUN from the law for over 25 years!
Her husband ought to be thrown in jail, too for aiding and abetting.
»» Submitted by bud jr at 9:19 AM on March 24
I love the 1/100 americans in jail stat. Maybe we need to rethink what is and isn't legal if such a large part of our society seems unable to live within those rules.
I don't really even like drugs, but the 'war' on them has got to stop.
»» Submitted by wayno at 9:25 AM on March 24
Wendy Knox is a terrific director. Why do we give two poops about what bud thinks?
Oh, yeah, I remember now. Most of us don't.
I only give one quarter poop.
»» Submitted by wayno at 9:30 AM on March 24
you ask a key question justbob. One cannot be arrested while on parole without a parole hearing. A parole hearing DID NOT happen. It's a clear case of false arrest and false imprisonment. The LAPD made a serious mistake and will surely face a civil lawsuit. She was in fact arrested without cause. 'Administrative error' is not a lawful reason for arrest, unless of course you favor tactics used by the Stassi.
For all of you trigger happy lynchers- some clarification is in order: Olson plead guilty to 2nd degree murder in order to plea bargain. People do this all the time to avoid expensive, lengthy trials. A year-long trial, during the fresh wake of 9/11 would have caused unnecessary stress and strain on her family. She killed NOBODY and served a sentence that many 1st degree convicted murders face. I'm all for criminals serving their terms, but this is a clear case of intimidation and abuse of power.
»» Submitted by »»» sirdirt at 10:11 AM on March 24
I thought being an accessory to commit murder (even unintentional) and conspriacy were considered almost the same as being the trigger man? Or is Law and Order not correct?
»» Submitted by »»» aliecat at 10:17 AM on March 24
I think Law & Order gets a lot of little details wrong.
I thought being an accessory to commit murder (even unintentional) and conspriacy were considered almost the same as being the trigger man?
Was that the case in the 70s? I have no idea. Just asking, because I believe that she was tried and sentenced under the laws at the time.
»» Submitted by »»» mnblrmkr at 10:26 AM on March 24
conspiracy and second degree murder are not equivalents to 1st degree murder. The fact remains that one cannot be arrested for a clerical "error" (the error of course is highly suspect)- If there was in fact an error, a parole hearing is necessary by law before any arrest can be made. She was lawfully paroled and unlawfully arrested and imprisoned. I'm deeply afraid of our growing police state.
»» Submitted by »»» sirdirt at 10:32 AM on March 24
I never said that conspriacy was the same as first degree. Jeepers.
»» Submitted by »»» aliecat at 10:45 AM on March 24
She killed NOBODY and served a sentence that many 1st degree convicted murders face.
Well, it wasn't for lack of trying. She put pipe bombs, which failed, on 2 cop cars. I think attempted 1st degree murder ought to be sentenced as heavily as a successful 1st degree murder. Just because you're a bad shot...
I'm conflicted on this case. I'm not sure if Justice is being served by paroling her, but prisons are overcrowded, and taking a non-threat such as her out of prison frees up a cell for someone who is presumably much more of a threat to The People.
»» Submitted by grote at 10:50 AM on March 24
She was lawfully paroled. Do you really think that there was such a negligent oversight for such a high profile criminal??? The LAPD and California corrections are out to get her and will bend and break the law in their favor to accomplish this. This reeks of mob-mentality, emotive politics. Let her free. use your mind.
»» Submitted by »»» sirdirt at 10:56 AM on March 24
sounds like you know plenty about emotive politics.
»» Submitted by grote at 11:00 AM on March 24
sounds like you know plenty about emotive politics. I save my outrage for more clear-cut cases of injustice.
»» Submitted by grote at 11:01 AM on March 24
everything I know about law I learned from the Law & Order Coloring Book
»» Submitted by wayno at 11:15 AM on March 24
With that haircut it's a wonder she was freed at all.
»» Submitted by »»» JACC at 11:20 AM on March 24
This case is the perfect litmus test for where a person sits in the Punishment versus Rehabilitation argument.
Is prison there to rehabilitate people or punish?
If you say both I would bet you are just lying to cover your lust for punishment. Obviously there needs to be punishment to be part of rehabilitation. I don't think we try to rehab anyone anymore. 1 in 100 Americans are now sitting in prison being punished for a transgression against the laws with little to no help to these people to assist them when they are released to society again.
»» Submitted by Mpls Simpleton at 11:29 AM on March 24
i swear at first glance i thought that was a picture of andy dick.
»» Submitted by cubbie at 11:35 AM on March 24
Our incarceration rates are higher than those in China and higher than Stalin's Russia.
»» Submitted by »»» sirdirt at 11:38 AM on March 24
Our incarceration rates are higher than those in China and higher than Stalin's Russia.
Well most of our prisoners that go into the system come out alive unlike the Chinese or Stalin era prisons and gulags, that drives the percentage up.
»» Submitted by Mpls Simpleton at 11:45 AM on March 24
Well, to be fair, Stalin killed a lot of the people he arrested.
»» Submitted by »»» aliecat at 11:46 AM on March 24
Simp beat me to it.
»» Submitted by »»» aliecat at 11:46 AM on March 24
Well most of our prisoners that go into the system come out alive unlike the Chinese or Stalin era prisons and gulags, that drives the percentage up.
Right, The US prison system prefers the much more humane practice of prison rape and letting our prisoners deal with HIV,Aids, and other health issues.
»» Submitted by »»» JACC at 11:56 AM on March 24
I only mentioned incarceration rates. Obviously, their execution rates are higher, but it's still freakin' frightening.
»» Submitted by »»» sirdirt at 11:58 AM on March 24
Our incarceration rates are higher than those in China and higher than Stalin's Russia.
our prisons are full to the brim due to our Draconian drug laws and the fact that most men, given the freedom to choose do not choose wisely...not because of our intolerance of (failed) cop killers.
There are 1,000s of innocent people in prison who can't afford legal help and don't have the sort of media-darling appeal of Soliah, yet you cry injustice when a violent murderous criminal, who happens to share your disdain for cops and your political POV, is forced to take her lumps.
I don't feel much, if any, empathy for one woman who just happens to have a compelling media angle.
»» Submitted by grote at 12:01 PM on March 24
As a county we really need to take a hard look at why we are incarcerating non-violent criminals with no rehabilitation. Does it do anyone any good to put a small time dealer of pot behind bars for 5 years and have him come back out with no skills to cope other than to go back to a life if selling drugs?
»» Submitted by Mpls Simpleton at 12:02 PM on March 24
if you smoke the dope, put your soap on a rope!
»» Submitted by Prison Wisdom at 12:03 PM on March 24
I was stunned (and encouraged) by the drug-law-flouting I witneessed in and around O'Shaughnessy auditorium on the campus of the College of St. Catherine on Friday night. There is hope for this country.
»» Submitted by grote at 12:09 PM on March 24
grote- she served her time- you're taking the 're-calcuation' error at face value. She deserves due process just like anyone.
»» Submitted by »»» sirdirt at 12:10 PM on March 24
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