Even by the standards of the Manson Family, Leslie Van Houten has experienced a legal odyssey, with multiple trials in one of the most notorious murder cases in modern American history.
Leslie Van Houten is shown during a break from a hearing before the California Board of Parole Hearings at the California Institution for Women in Chino, Calif., on April 14, 2016. Van Houten has been approved for parole five times, but only this time was she ultimately released.
Van Houten is shown in a March 29, 1971, photo. Her conviction from that year's trial, which led to a death sentence, was ultimately tossed, though she would be ultimately convicted again. Those governor decisions have been approved by the courts, but California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office erred after a 2020 reversal and Van Houten legal's team successfully took up the matter with the state's appellate court.
There's been much discussion in recent years involving neuroscience and the teen brain and what is an appropriate sentence for young persons convicted of violent crimes. The most famous Van Houten supporter is likely filmmaker John Waters, who has visited Van Houten in prison since the 1980s and wrote about her in one of the essays in the 2010 book"Somebody has to stick up for the worst people in the world. They weren't born bad," Waters said in a New York Times profile.
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