News Archive

2001

  • Dec. 3: Judge: Olson plea will stand
  • Nov. 30: For Olson, chances slim for trial
  • Nov. 27: Lawyer: Coercion led to SLA guilty plea
  • Nov. 14: Former SLA fugitive asks to withdraw her guilty plea
  • Nov. 6: Olson admits guilt, plea stands
  • Nov. 1: Judge orders hearing on Olson plea
  • Nov. 1: After plea, other consequences may await Olson
  • Oct. 31: Olson makes plea deal
  • Oct. 31: Olson testimony scuttled, plea rumors fly
  • Oct. 31: FBI agents, police to defend '75 searches
  • Oct. 29: Conspiracy theories: How much will it take to convict Olson?
  • Oct. 25: Olson judge won't label SLA 'terrorist organization'
  • Oct. 24: Olson judge to hear from witnesses to SLA searches
  • Oct. 22: In the shadow of Olson's bombing trial, a 26-year-old shooting
  • Oct. 19: Olson team asks for more time
  • Oct. 10: Judge refuses to delay Olson trial
  • Oct. 3: Radical asks for trial delay, cites Sept. 11
  • June 8: SLA lawyer has charges dropped
  • May 10: Prosecutors will challenge delay in trial of SLA fugitive
  • Feb. 26: Former SLA fugitive attacks prosecutors after hearing

    • 2000

  • May 23: Judge: Lawyer should have filed Olson suit under seal
  • April 12: Former SLA fugitive to go on trial in the summer
  • March 6: Former SLA fugitive to go on trial in the summer
  • Feb. 8: Potential key witness in SLA trial dies before testifying
  • Feb. 4: Defense: Witness battling cancer may die before trial and must be deposed immediately
  • Feb. 3: Defense in Olson case says ill witness may die before trial
  • Jan. 18: Former SLA fugitive granted delay in trial and loses one lawyer
  • Jan. 18: Former SLA fugitive granted delay in trial and loses one lawyer
  • Jan. 18: Former SLA fugitive's lawyers to ask for trial postponement
  • Jan. 10: Prosecutors can present SLA history in Olson trial, judge rules

    • 1999

  • Dec. 30: Retired LAPD officer emerges as only living witness to place former SLA fugitive at crime scene
  • Dec. 29: Retired LAPD officer emerges as only living witness to place former SLA fugitive at crime scene
  • Nov. 19: Patty Hearst Shaw: Kidnapping victim and potential witness in former SLA member's trial
  • Nov. 19: Former SLA radical must stand trial for '75 bomb plot
  • Nov. 18: Soliah soccer mom: Dismiss conspiracy indictment
  • Nov. 1: Prosecutors can present SLA crime history in trial of former member Olson
  • Oct. 26: Patty Hearst ordered to testify at former SLA fugitive's upcoming trial
  • Sept. 1: New judge assigned to trial of Ex-SLA member
  • July 26: Soliah tries to return to normal life in Minnesota
  • July 20: Soliah thanks supporters as she is released from prison
  • July 20: Judge orders Soliah's release after supporters post $1M bail
  • July 19: Captured former SLA member set to be released as supporters raise $1M bail
  • July 14: Bail set at $1M for captured former SLA member
  • July 14: Friends and family urge bail for captured former SLA member
  • July 13: Recently captured former SLA member faces bail hearing in Los Angeles

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        After 24 years of a model suburban life, Sara Jane Olson, aka Kathleen Soliah, faced conspiracy charges for allegedly planting bombs under police cars as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the radical leftist group infamous for kidnapping Patty Hearst.    
       
  • The trial: Prosecuting a decade

  • Suburbanite, actress, radical: Who is Sara Jane Olson?

  • The Symbionese Liberation Army

  • Full coverage
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  • Map: Soliah and the SLA

  • Case chronology
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  • Photos:
    • Shootout in L.A.         		   
       
  • Olson appears at hearing about request for Sept. 11 delay

  • 'Under Siege': Patty Hearst and the death of the SLA

  • Hearst robs a bank
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  • The original police report describes Olson's alleged crimes

  • The LAPD's official version of the shootout and fire that killed six SLA members (PDF)

  • Pages from an SLA notebook targeting Patty Hearst

  • More key documents
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