Gov. Cuomo Commutes Sentence of Radical Leftist Terrorist Judith Clark
Cuomo forgives her role in a triple murder -- for which she has never shown genuine remorse.
January 3, 2017
Joseph Klein
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
has decided to commute the sentence of a domestic terrorist, Judith Alice Clark, who willingly participated in a bloody robbery that led to the deaths of a security guard and two police officers. Clark, who pleaded not guilty, but was convicted of felony murder, had been sentenced to such a long prison term that she had no real hope for parole during her lifetime – until now. Cuomo’s decision to commute Clark’s sentence will not immediately result in her release, but the steep reduction in her sentence will make her eligible for parole early this year. The loved ones of the three men killed during the robbery and getaway in which Clark took an active part will have to continue to experience their hellish losses for as long as they live. Unless all the family members of the slain are ready to forgive what the self-proclaimed “revolutionary” and “freedom fighter” did, and they do not object to Clark’s release on parole, she should continue to experience her own hell in jail for as long as she lives.
On October 20, 1981, Clark joined members of the violent radical group known as the
Weather Underground, who robbed a Brink's armored truck in Nanuet, New York. Clark, who did not pull the trigger herself, was the driver of one of the getaway cars. Her partners in crime killed a Brinks guard, Peter Paige, in the course of the robbery. They also killed the two police officers, Waverly Brown and Edward O'Grady, who had attempted to stop the getaway vehicles on the highway. Clark was captured after she crashed one of the getaway vehicles. Just before her arrest, according to
the 2008 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying Clark’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, “police saw Clark reach for a nine-millimeter pistol on the floor of the car.”
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The answer is simple. The others should not have been released in the first place. All the gang members, including Clark, deserve to serve the full terms of their sentences for what they did. It is irrelevant whether Clark, Boudin or any of the others involved in the robbery and murders have become model citizens. The sentences were not about encouraging and rewarding rehabilitation. They were about justice for those brave men who were brutally shot down in their prime of life and the families whom have had to endure the pain ever since. As Michael Paige, the son of the slain Brinks security guard Peter Paige, said, “For Governor Cuomo to even think of commuting the sentence of a triple murderer who murdered police officers and my father — that, to me, is the gravest form of injustice to these three men, who were killed standing their ground and protecting us.”
Until all the families of the slain are ready to forgive Judith Clark and consent to her release on parole, nobody else has a moral right to give her a break, including Governor Cuomo and the parole board.
Gov. Cuomo Commutes Sentence of Radical Leftist Terrorist Judith Clark
