Defense in SLA Case Seeks to Delay Trial
Lawyers for alleged Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson are requesting that her trial be moved from April to September.
In court papers filed Tuesday, attorneys for Olson, 54, who is charged with conspiring to kill two Los Angeles police officers in 1975 while a member of the radical group, say they have been overwhelmed by the material they must study for the case and can’t be ready for trial this month.
Deputy Dist. Attys. Michael Latin and Eleanor Hunter plan to argue against the delay at an April 13 hearing before Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler. The trial, initially scheduled to begin in January 2000, has been postponed several times.
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