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Fugitive mom back in Michigan court pleading for a sentencing break three decades later

By Douglas A. Berman

Some may recall the remarkable story of long-time fugitive Susan LeFevre (background here), a drug crime defendant who escaped from a Michigan prison in the 1970s and lived for three decades and raised a family in California under another name.  As detailed in this local press report, LeFevre is back in court and thus back in the news.  And, fascinatingly, the debate is over mandatory sentencing terms and pre-sentencing procedures even three decades later: She maddeningly refused to answer the most innocuous question. Other times she rambled. Still other times she ignored her attorney's advice to stop talking. During a disjointed two hours on the witness stand Wednesday, a wealthy California woman who escaped from a Michigan prison 32 years ago tried to explain why her original prison sentence should be shortened...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).