Clark Granted Parole 38 Years Into Prison Term in Cop-Killings

Judith Clark, the former revolutionary convicted of murder for her role in a militant group’s 1981 robbery of a Brink’s truck in Rockland County during which a guard, Peter Paige, and, an hour later, two Nyack policemen, Officer Waverly Brown and Sgt. Edward O'Grady, were killed, has been granted parole. She is expected to be freed from the Bedford Hills Correction Facility within a month.

While dozens of elected and other officials said Ms. Clark, 69, had long ago renounced violence and accepted responsibility for her role in the murders, law-enforcement groups remained adamant that she remain in prison. They greeted the split decision to release her—two state Board of Parole Commissioners were in favor and one dissented—with anger.