A lawyer for Susan LeFevre, the San Diego woman arrested 32 years after escaping a Detroit prison, revealed his plans to petition Michigan's governor in order to commute the nine years remaining on her sentence, the Associated Press reports.

The 53-year-old woman was sentenced in Saginaw County to 10-20 years in prison on February 27, 1975, for conspiracy to violate drug laws and violation of drug laws. In 1976, she walked out the Detroit House of Corrections after serving just one year of the sentence.

Lefevre got married and raised three children in a San Diego suburb using the false identity “Marie Walsh.” She agreed to be extradited to Michigan to face the consequences of her 1975 guilty plea to drug-trafficking charges.

Under sentencing laws for the 1970s, Lefevre would have to serve nearly six years before being eligible for parole in 2013, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan, said.

“Nobody is suggesting that she ought to just be able to walk away from this and have everybody forget, but we now have the benefit of perspective,” Lefevre’s attorney, Paul Denenfeld said. “By all indications she's been a good wife and mother and a good community person, so we think that presents extraordinary circumstances and we think that calls for governors to respond in kind,” he added, quoted by the A.P.

Susan Lefevre trained as a hospice worker and volunteered for political causes in California. She said she had tried “to be exceptionally good” and wanted “to make a life as Marie, to make a point of being as disciplined as possible.”

While Michigan authorities claimed LeFevre was the teenage leader of a 1970s drug ring, raking in $2,000 a week in heroin sales, the woman depicted herself as a recent high school graduate working for minimum wage and driving a $400 car. Lefevre said she was among several teenagers who dabbled in the drug culture so glorified by the rock stars at the time.