Court Report

Fugitive Mom Hoping for Pardon

SANTEE, Calif. (AP) - An attorney for a woman arrested in California 32 years after escaping a Detroit prison said he plans to petition Michigan's governor to commute the nine years remaining on her sentence. Susan LeFevre, who married and raised three children in a posh San Diego suburb using the name Marie Walsh, has agreed to be extradited to Michigan to face the consequences of her 1975 guilty plea to drug-trafficking charges. She served one year of a 10- to 20-year sentence before climbing over a fence to meet her waiting grandfather in February 1976. Read more...
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