{"id":11430,"date":"2018-07-02T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T20:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=11430"},"modified":"2018-07-02T13:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T20:46:23","slug":"judge-upholds-governors-decision-to-reverse-parole-for-manson-murderer-leslie-van-houten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=11430","title":{"rendered":"Judge Upholds Governor\u2019s Decision to Reverse Parole for Manson Murderer Leslie Van Houten"},"content":{"rendered":"<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-32 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flasvegasbuffetclub.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F11430&#038;t=Judge%20Upholds%20Governor%E2%80%99s%20Decision%20to%20Reverse%20Parole%20for%20Manson%20Murderer%20Leslie%20Van%20Houten&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Flasvegasbuffetclub.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F11430&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.losfelizledger.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F06%2Fleslie-van-houten-590x393.jpg&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Judge%20Upholds%20Governor%E2%80%99s%20Decision%20to%20Reverse%20Parole%20for%20Manson%20Murderer%20Leslie%20Van%20Houten\" style=\"font-size: 0px; 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Jerry Brown\u2019s decision to reverse a state parole board\u2019s recommendation of parole for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, who was convicted of the 1969 murders of grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca at their Los Feliz home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile petitioner may someday be suitable for parole, when her commitment offense is no longer predictive of current dangerousness, it is not yet that day,\u201d Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan wrote in a 16-page ruling, in which he called the crimes \u201camong the most abominable committed in California in the second half of the 20th century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge wrote that he had concluded that there was \u201csome evidence\u201d to support the governor\u2019s determination that petitioner poses an unreasonable risk of danger to society, and that all of petitioner\u2019s due process rights were met and found that the petition challenging the governor\u2019s reversal of parole \u201cmust be denied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Houten\u2019s appellate attorney, Rich Pfeiffer, has vowed to continue to fight for Van Houten\u2019s release. He said he plans to ask a panel from California\u2019s 2nd District Court of Appeal to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Van Houten, now 68, was convicted of murder and conspiracy for participating with fellow Manson family members Charles \u201cTex\u201d Watson and Patricia Krenwinkel in the Aug. 9, 1969, killings of Leno La Bianca, 44, and his 38-year-old wife, who were each stabbed multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>The former Monrovia High School cheerleader and homecoming princess did not participate in the Manson family\u2019s killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others in a Benedict Canyon mansion the night before.<\/p>\n<p>A state parole board panel had initially recommended parole for Van Houten in April 2016 after she had been denied parole 19 times between 1979 and 2013. But the governor subsequently reversed that decision, finding in July 2016 that \u201cthe evidence shows that she currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\n <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>At a hearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom last summer, a woman who once lived at a ranch with Manson testified that Van Houten was \u201cextremely docile\u201d before the killings and that she believed Van Houten would have done anything the cult leader asked. Catherine Share\u2019s testimony came during an Aug. 31 hearing to present mitigating evidence now allowed under state law because Van Houten was 19 at the time of the killings.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, a parole board panel again recommended that Van Houten be granted parole. But the governor reversed the recommendation, finding in January that she \u201chas not wholly accepted responsibility for her role in the violent and brutal deaths\u201d of the La Biancas.<\/p>\n<p>Manson \u2014 who died last November \u2014 and many of his other former followers have repeatedly been denied parole.<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\n <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.losfelizledger.com\/\">Los Feliz Ledger.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/index.html\">LasVegasBuffetClub.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge Friday denied a petition challenging Gov. Jerry Brown\u2019s decision to reverse a state parole board\u2019s recommendation of parole for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, who was convicted of the 1969 murders of grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca at their Los Feliz home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1773,1737,1772,1774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11430"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11438,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11430\/revisions\/11438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}