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  Associated Press

  At parole hearing, David Gilbert described radical journey

  Former Weather Underground radical David Gilbert described his path from nonviolent 1960s activist to would-be revolutionary during a 4 1/2-hour hearing before the New York state parole board panel that approved his parole in October, 40 years after he served as a getaway driver in the botched Brink's robbery that left three men dead and several others wounded. “The change for me came after Martin Luther King was assassinated,” Gilbert told a three-member panel of commissioners during his Oct.

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  NY Daily News

  Weather Underground radical David Gilbert, 76, gains parole in deadly New York Brinks robbery heist after 40 years in prison

  Former Weather Underground radical David Gilbert, the getaway driver in the deadly botched Brinks robbery 40 years ago in which a guard and two police officers were killed, was granted parole on Tuesday. Although Gilbert was unarmed during the attempted heist, he was charged with robbery and murder, since people were killed during the heist. Gilbert, 76, was originally sentenced to 75 years to ...

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  U.S.

  Associated Press

  ’70s radical David Gilbert granted parole in Brink’s robbery

  Former Weather Underground radical David Gilbert has been granted parole after 40 years behind bars for his role in a deadly 1981 Brink’s robbery that was a violent echo of left-wing extremism born in the 1960s, the state corrections department said Tuesday. Gilbert, 76, has been imprisoned since shortly after the infamously botched armored car robbery in which a guard and two police officers were killed. Gilbert appeared before the state parole board Oct. 19 and was subsequently granted parol

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• U.S.

  NY Daily News

  Be fair: David Gilbert needs due process from the Parole Board

  Convicted terrorist David Gilbert, justly imprisoned for the Oct. 20, 1981, Rockland County Brink’s robbery, where armored car guard Peter Paige and Police Officers Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown were murdered by Gilbert’s fellow revolutionaries, celebrates his 77th birthday in prison in two weeks, but could be released soon after that (right around the atrocity’s 40th anniversary) if the ...

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  U.S.

  Los Angeles Times Opinion

  Op-Ed: Andrew Cuomo's act of clemency in New York reaches all the way to California

  Chesa Boudin is San Francisco's jail-reform D.A. His father has been behind bars for 40 years. Now his dad has a chance to go free.

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  NY Daily News

  Editorial: Parole for a terrorist: Cuomo was wrong to grant clemency to David Gilbert

  Andrew Cuomo’s final act as governor was to wrongly grant a proudly admitted, convicted terrorist, a man guilty of the felony murders of police officers, a likely ticket to freedom. David Gilbert was part of the Weather Underground who still has 35 years on his 75-year sentence for the Oct. 20, 1981 robbery in Rockland County where Brink’s guard Peter Paige and Police Officers Edward O’Grady ...

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  NY Daily News

  Parole for a terrorist: Cuomo was wrong to grant clemency to David Gilbert

  Andrew Cuomo’s final act as governor was to wrongly grant a proudly admitted, convicted terrorist, a man guilty of the felony murders of police officers, a likely ticket to freedom. David Gilbert was part of the Weather Underground who still has 35 years on his 75-year sentence for the Oct. 20, 1981 robbery in Rockland County where Brink’s guard Peter Paige and Police Officers Edward O’Grady ...

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  NY Daily News

  Long-jailed driver in 1981 Brink’s robbery receives Cuomo clemency, prompting law enforcement outrage

  A bi-coastal barrage of outrage followed Gov. Cuomo’s last-second gift of clemency for a long-imprisoned ‘70s radical convicted for a botched 1981 Brink’s truck robbery that left two police officers and a security guard lying dead outside a suburban mall. Weather Underground member David Gilbert, now 76, was behind the wheel of the getaway car on Oct. 21, 1981, when officers Waverly Brown and ...

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  Politics

  The Guardian

  Kathy Hochul sworn in as first female governor of New York state

  Former lieutenant governor Hochul, 62, who replaces Andrew Cuomo, says she ‘wants people to believe in our government again’ New York’s chief judge, Janet DiFiore, swears in Kathy Hochul, right, as the first woman to be New York’s governor in Albany. Photograph: Hans Pennink/AFP/Getty Images Kathy Hochul, the first woman to become governor of New York state, will make her debut speech from the executive mansion in Albany on Tuesday, after she was sworn into the post in a private ceremony in the

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  U.S.

  Associated Press

  Cuomo gives clemency to 6, including Brink's heist driver

  Hours before leaving office, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday granted clemency to six people, including the driver in a fatal 1981 armored truck robbery whose release was championed by his son, San Francisco’s top prosecutor. David Gilbert, 76, is serving a life sentence for his role in the bungled 1981 Brink’s robbery north of New York City, a bloody heist involving leftist revolutionaries that left a guard and two police officers dead. Through Cuomo’s action, he will be referred to the s

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