The former governor said Gilbert made significant contributions to AIDS education and prevention programs, and worked as a tutor, law library clerk, paralegal assistant, teacher’s aide and aide in various prison programs.Ĭhesa Boudin was raised by his parents’ Weather Underground compatriots, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Gilbert was not eligible for parole until 2056 before Cuomo commuted his sentence. She had been denied parole after her first hearing two years earlier. Clark was granted parole in 2019, three years after Cuomo commuted her sentence. Kathy Boudin avoided a harsher sentence by pleading guilty and was paroled in 2003. At one court session, Gilbert and defendant Judith Clark raised their fists and shouted “Free the land!” In a sometimes raucous trial, Gilbert and two other defendants cast themselves as freedom fighters and deemed the proceedings illegitimate. The boy was 14 months old when his parents were imprisoned. Also charged was Chesa Boudin’s mother, Kathy Boudin. Though unarmed, Gilbert was charged with robbery and murder, since people were killed during the crime. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly Brown, were killed in the holdup and ensuing shootout at a nearby roadblock. They stole $1.6 million in cash from an armored car outside the Nanuet Mall near the Hudson River community of Nyack.īrink’s guard Peter Paige and two Nyack police officers, Sgt. Gilbert and other former members of the Weather Underground, a militant group that grew out of the anti-Vietnam War movement, had joined with members of the Black Liberation Army in the Oct. That prospect angered some local officials in the Hudson Valley and family members who said his release would insult to the memory of the slain men. Supporters - including his son, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin - lobbied to have Gilbert join other defendants in the case who have been released from prison. He will be able to leave Shawangunk Correctional Facility in the Hudson Valley next month. 19 and was subsequently granted parole, Thomas Mailey, a spokesperson for the New York state corrections department, said Tuesday.
Gilbert appeared before the state parole board Oct. Andrew Cuomo in August, hours before he left office.
He became eligible for parole only after his 75 years-to-life sentence was shortened by Gov.
Gilbert, 76, has been imprisoned since shortly after the infamously botched armored car robbery in which a guard and two police officers were killed. (AP) - 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.
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