California appeals court rules that Manson ‘family’ member should be eligible for parole
A California appeals court overruled Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday to find Leslie Van Houten, one of Charles Manson’s murderous “family” of followers, entitled to parole after more than 50 years in prison for her part in the cult’s 1969 killing spree.
But in granting her petition, the appellate judges wrote that Newsom’s conclusion “fails to account for the decades of therapy, self-help programming, and reflection Van Houten has undergone in the past 50 years.” Van Houten was convicted of fatally stabbing grocery owner Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, in their Los Angeles home on Aug. 10, 1969. The words “Death to Pigs” and “Healter Skelter” - a misspelled reference to a Beatles song - were found scrawled in the victims’ blood on the walls and refrigerator.
Van Houten’s 1971 original conviction and death sentence were initially overturned on appeal, but she was retried, convicted and sentenced to prison in 1978.
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