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California Mom to Be Extradited to Michigan

By Steven Rodriguez

A respected Carmel Valley mother sits in prison awaiting extradition to Michigan. In what must seem like another lifetime, she was sentenced to serve 10 to 20 years in prison for selling heroin in Saginaw, Michigan. Eight months into her sentence, she escaped over a barbed wire fence. She was 20 years old. Now 53, Susan LeFevre is being ripped from her husband and three children and the law-abiding life she has lived in upscale North County to serve out the rest of her jail term in Michigan. Her chances for clemency from Michigan’s hard line governor are slim, legal experts say. Just out of high school, LeFevre was one of many 1970 teens who dabbled in the drug culture, using and sometimes dealing. She was arrested at age 19 during a state police crackdown on drug dealers...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on May 13, 2008 (boomark / email).