Fencepost Error
March 22nd, 2008
I just read that they inadvertently released Sara Jane Olson one year too soon. After nearly a week of freedom, she was returned to jail to complete her sentence. That has to suck. They blame a “clerical error”, but I’m thinking this is a fencepost error in some poorly tested software.
I can only speculate, but it seems pretty likely that a prisoner serving several years in jail knows EXACTLY when his or her sentence is up. I know I’d be counting down the days. And if I had exactly 365 days left and the warden set me free, I doubt I’d complain either.
In the artical it seemed like the police blamed her release on the merit of her lawyer and not their own mistake. There has to be a Cival Rights issue in this.
She has every right to be free. As long as California and the Federal Gov’t do not enforce ILLEGAL ALIEN laws, then why arrest or imprison citizens of the US? It doesn’t matter to me anymore. Child molesters? bank robbers? police killers? So what. If the fing illegal is not arrested then a citizen should not be arrested!!!! End of Story!
re: comments.
Wow. Those ‘Saturday night’ posts certainly bring out the fringe.
I wonder if the ACLU and Lou Dobbs advocate unit-testing? Or Joda time (re: leap year)
Lunatic fringe. Maybe. Then you have the defense attorney, saying we live in a fascist state because we keep a murderer in jail until her term is up.
The SLA was, and is right!
This shows what a stupid pig state we all live in.
What kind of an error is this?
Just dumb.
I feel less safe knowing the law is this retarded.
Let her go, and jail the bad cops and other people of the “law” who think they can do what they want.
Stop a cop today!
The law is no longer on your side.
I am,
George Vreeland Hill
“Olson cannot be treated as “yo-yo” in regard to the law, he said”
Yeah, the woman is a murderer, not a yo-yo. Treat her like one.
WHO CARES? What a farce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!