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"In other
conference action, the justices:
•Denied review of
the summary denial, by this district’s Div. One, of the most recent habeas
corpus petition by Manson family member Leslie Van Houten. Van Houten, now 63,
was 19—the youngest of the defendants—at the time of what have become known as
the Tate/LaBianca murders.
Van Houten
admitted her involvement in the August 1969 murders of Leno and Rosemary La
Bianca in their Cielo Drive
home. One day earlier, actress Sharon Tate and four others were murdered at the
home Tate rented with her husband, director Roman Polanski, who was in
Europe at the
time.
Van Houten was
convicted of the La Bianca murders. She was not present during the Tate murders
but was convicted of conspiracy to commit them.
Rosemary La
Bianca was stabbed a total of 42 times, and Van Houten said at various times
that she had herself stabbed the woman 14 or 16 times. Another Manson Family
member testified that Van Houten admitted stabbing La Bianca after she was
already dead and said “the more she did it the more fun it was.”
She has now been
denied parole 19 times."
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