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| Ex-Manson family member seeks parole for 1969 murder |
The accession angel who descended into a activity of drugs afore abutting Manson's band in the 1960s is appointed for her 21st audition afore a acquittal lath console on Thursday at the California Institution for Women in Chino.
Van Houten, 66, has spent added than four decades in prison, commutual academy degrees and demonstrating admirable behavior.
She was bedevilled for her role in the 1969 murders of affluent grocer Leno La Bianca and his wife Rosemary in their Los Angeles home. The La Biancas were stabbed abundant times and the chat "WAR" was carved on his stomach.
The brace was asleep a day afterwards added alleged "Manson family" associates murdered extra Sharon Tate, abundant wife of administrator Roman Polanski, and four others. The killings were the alpha of what Manson believed was a advancing chase war. He dubbed it "Helter Skelter" afterwards a Beatles song.
Van Houten's lawyer, Rich Pfeiffer, said she presents no crisis to the accessible and should be freed.
"The alone agitated affair she has anytime done in her absolute activity was this abomination and that was beneath the ascendancy of Charles Manson," he said. "She is just not a accessible assurance risk, and if you are not a accessible assurance risk, the law says you shall be released."
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's appointment beneath to animadversion advanced of Thursday's hearing.
Sharon Tate's sister, Debra, has started an online address opposing acquittal for Van Houten, adage she bootless to appearance anguish for years afterwards the crimes and can't be trusted.
At her endure audition in 2013, a acquittal abettor told Van Houten she had bootless to explain how anyone as able and aristocratic as she could acquire committed such awful and awful crimes.
Van Houten told the console she had been traumatized by her parents' annulment if she was 14, her abundance anon afterwards and her mother's affirmation she acquire an abortion. During the hearing, she apologized to anybody she had harmed.
Van Houten did not participate in the Tate killings but went forth the next night if the La Biancas were slain. She was 19 at the time.
Her aegis attorneys portrayed her as a adolescent woman from a acceptable ancestors who had been a accession angel and showed affiance until she got complex with drugs and was recruited into Manson's cult.
During the amends appearance of her trial, she accepted to abutting in cutting Rosemary La Bianca afterwards she was dead.
Van Houten's confidence was chaotic on appeal. She was retried alert and bedevilled in 1978 of two counts of annihilation and conspiracy.
Manson, 81, and added followers complex in the killings are still jailed.
Patricia Krenwinkel and Charles "Tex" Watson acquire anniversary been denied acquittal assorted times, while adolescent actor Susan Atkins died in bastille in 2009.
Former Manson addict Bruce Davis was accustomed for acquittal but Gov. Jerry Brown blocked his absolution in 2014, citation the force of his offenses and his abnegation to absolutely acquire albatross for his role in the murders of a achievement man and a musician.
Davis was not complex in the Tate-La Bianca murders.
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