Brinks armored car robber denied parole

ALBANY – The New York State Parole Board on Friday denied parole for Judith Clark, the getaway driver in the failed 1981 Rockland County Brinks armored car robbery that left three law enforcement officers 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, 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,” he said.  Day has been highly critical of Cuomo’s
decision to commute Clark’s sentence.
Clark’s lawyer, Steven Zeidman, sid the parole board’s decision “deliberately
ignores Ms. Clark’s extraordinary record of achievement and transformation
recognized and valued by Governor Cuomo and his Executive Clemency Bureau,
and instead elevates calls for interminable vengeance and punishment.”
Zeidman said Clark’s is “a testament to the human capacity for change
as well as to the potential for the Department of Corrections to fulfill
its ultimate goal – a properly functioning Parole Board would have recognized
that.”
Clark’s daughter, Harriet, stated the parole board “claims that
my mother is ‘still a symbol of violent and terroristic crime’ so I want
the parole board to know that decisions like are their own kind of violence
and create their own kind of terror.” She asked “who is served
by making the environment for people inside and their families outside
even more grim and discouraged?”
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.