LOS ANGELES (AP)— A judge let stand a guilty plea entered last week by Sara Jane Olson after the former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive appeared in court again Tuesday to reaffirm her stand.

Olson pleaded guilty Oct. 31 to possessing bombs with intent to murder Los Angeles police officers in 1975. But she later told reporters outside court that she was innocent and only agreed to the plea bargain because the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks made it unlikely she would get a fair trial.

Her remarks prompted Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler to call Tuesday's session to determine if the plea remains valid in light of her public declarations of innocence.

"She is guilty as she has indicated under the concept of aiding and abetting," Fidler declared Tuesday.

Olson, 54, was a fugitive for a quarter-century until her 1999 arrest in St. Paul, Minn., on charges she tried to murder officers by planting bombs under police cars to avenge the deaths of six SLA members in a 1974 shootout. The bombs didn't explode.

The courtroom was jammed to capacity for Tuesday's hearing with Olson's mother and her 19-year-old daughter in the front row, along with her many supporters.

The judge began by demanding that Olson decide if she wanted to reaffirm her plea or continue to declare her innocence outside court.

"The guilty plea is not a waystation on the way to a press conference to claim one's innocence," Fidler said. "She cannot have it both ways."

Olson arose in court and said, "I want to make it clear, your honor, I did not make that bomb. I did not possess that bomb. I did not plant that bomb. But under the concept of aiding and abetting I do plead guilty."

"Because you are guilty of the crimes?" the judge asked.

"Yes," she replied.

The judge said his only requirement was that Olson understand that she could receive a life term if a parole board should decide to extend her sentence.

She said she understood it was not the present position of prosecutors that she should receive such a dire sentence.

Her lawyers have said she is likely to receive five years and four months.