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No Mercy at the Court

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That's the title of an OpEd in the Sunday Dallas Morning News by Harvard Law prof Carol Steiker.  LINK When Susan LeFevre was 19, she was arrested for selling drugs to an undercover officer in Saginaw, Mich. It was 1974, and she was a first-time offender. She believed that if she pleaded guilty, she would probably get probation. She was wrong. After her guilty plea, she was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in state prison.     One year later, Ms. LeFevre hopped a fence and fled the prison. She moved to California and adopted her middle name, Marie. Years passed. She eventually married and raised three children, dedicating herself to her family and charitable causes. She never committed another offense. Her husband and children knew nothing about her youthful conviction or prison sentence ? until April, when, 32 years after her escape, she was arrested and extradited to Michigan...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 15, 2008 (boomark / email).