unofficial end of the peace and love 1960s. the manson family s killing spree in august of 1969 at the direction of charles mansion himself, a murderous rampage born of twisted inspiration they claim by the beatles song helter-skelter, which manson claimed predicted a race war. fife people, including pregnant actress sharon tate murdered at the home of her husband, movie director roman polanski. the next night leno labianca and his wife rosemary were murdered in their los angeles home. 19-year-old leslie mccrae dowless was c leslie van houts convicted. she was denied release over and over again until now. van houten was released on parole from a california prison today, and her lawyer, nancy tatro joins me now. counselor, very nice to see you. this has been five decades in the making for your client. how, what is she doing tonight?
with me now is van hakon s attorney, nancy tatro, thank you for being with us. have you talked with van hakon? what is her reaction to this news? is it your expectation as it is being reported, that your client is probably going to be paroled and will be allowed to leave prison? she is for sure going to be leaving prison on parole, probably within the next couple of weeks. what happened is that the parole board granted to parole in 2020. she was in front of the board about 21 times, starting in 1982, denied 21 times. in 2016, she got her first grant of parole, she had five consecutive parole grants by the board, all of them reversed by the governor. the governor did reverse this grant, but we prevailed in the california court of appeal. the
i have heard her say that she wakes up every day feeling remorse and guilt and it is genuine and the court found that to be true. nancy, thanks very much, we will check back in with you once this release happens. appreciate your time. thanks so much. thank you for having me. still ahead, ukraine is welcoming president biden s decision to send cluster munitions to that country. how much could the weapons impact tactics on the battlefield? we will discuss that next with colonel cedric layton. you are watching cnn newsroom. and if you don t have the right home insurance coveragag, well you could end up paying for all this yourselflf. so get a allstate. [clicking] when occasional heartburn won t let you sleep. [clicking] get fast relief with new tums+ heartburn + sleep suppt. love food back and fall asleep faster. tum, tum tum tum, tums