ALBANY – The New York
State Parole Board Friday denied parole for Judith Clark, the getaway
driver in the failed 1981 Rockland County Brinks armored car robbery that
left three men dead.
Governor Cuomo had commuted the sentence of Judith Clark, now 67, who
has served 35 years of a 75-year to life sentenced. She is not eligible
for parole again until April 2019.
She was part of the radical Weather Underground movement that held up
the armed car in Nanuet, which led to a shootout.
Thousands of police officers, state and local government officials and
residents of the area sent letters to the parole board urging its members
to reject her bid.
Rockland County Executive Edwin Day, himself a retired cop, said Clark
needs to spend the rest of her life behind bars to pay her debt to society.
She is a domestic terrorist who does not deserve to walk among the free.”
A Brinks guard, Peter Paige, was killed at the scene in Nanuet. Two Nyack
police officers, Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly “Chipper”
Brown, were killed at a roadblock in Nyack.
Day has been highly critical of Cuomo’s decision to commute Clark’s
sentence.
