Six Christmases ago, Ollin Crawford was told she would finally be going home. The lawyers said Virginia's parole board was ready to agree that the state had done Crawford an injustice back in 1984, that her 70-year sentence for robbing four banks in quick succession in Fairfax County was excessive and that it was wrong to apply the state's three-time loser law to someone with no prior felonies. -
The Gift Of Justice Doesn't Cost a Dime
Six Christmases ago, Ollin Crawford was told she would finally be going home. The lawyers said Virginia's parole board was ready to agree that the state had done Crawford an injustice back in 1984, that her 70-year sentence for robbing four banks in quick succession in Fairfax County was excessive and that it was wrong to apply the state's three-time loser law to someone with no prior felonies.-
By Marc Fisher