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You may have heard or read about Sara Jane Olsen's drama this past weekend. Several of my criminal law students sent me great links to articles, and here's the story in a nutshell. remember that we read about two people connected to the Symbionese Liberation Army in the 1970s, Kathleen Soliah and Patty Hearst. Soliah was possibly involved with the group's plans to bomb two police cars, which was foiled when the pipe bombs fell off the cars. She went underground, changed her identity, fled to St. Paul, MN, got married, had kids, and essentially lived as a model citizen for more than 20 years. She was arrested in 1999 and finally pled guilty to some of the crimes she was charged with. She was sentenced under the law as it existed when the crimes were committed, which resulted in substantially shorter sentences than she would receive if the crimes were committed today. She was released on parole Friday and told she could spend that time in St. Paul. At the airport she was detained, and the next day, brought back to prison. Authorities said that they had miscalculated and that she wasn't due for parole for another year. Ouch.

Here's a CNN story and the San Francisco Chronicle story.

This is the podcast to cover all of the material for the entire rest of the semester. It goes beyond what we have covered so far, and includes material that we will not cover at all (lesser evils and public authority justifications). Consider those just as part of the big picture, to give you context. crimpod8.mp3

Here are the podcasts to get you up to date for the next quiz in just under two weeks.

Inchoate offenses, crimpod6.mp3

Imputation, crimpod7.mp3

Even though we're not all the way through homicide and causation, it seemed a good idea to post the podcast summary for that topic, given that our quiz is only a week away. And here it is: crimpod5.mp3

As always, let me know if you have any questions.

I can't believe how much we've covered already in criminal law. I hope that you're finding our current work a little more concrete than our prior work. And to help with all of that background material, I've done three podcasts: 1. on the analytical structure of criminal law crimpod1.mp3; 2. on the legality principle Crimpod2.mp3; 3. and on the theories of punishment crimpod3.mp3.

And just for good measure, here is the podcast on culpability: crimpod4.mp3

Enjoy!