Posted on 01/24/2005 1:48:44 PM PST by Rodney King
1010 WINS) NEW YORK A former radical serving 75 years in prison for the deadly 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck has asked to be released from prison.
She claims she was not given proper legal representation.
55-year-old Judith Clark filed a petition for habeas corpus yesterday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Clark argues that the judge at her 1983 state trial violated the constitution when he granted Clark's request to serve as her own lawyer.
Clark was convicted of three counts of second-degree murder in the 1981 armed robbery, in which a guard and two policemen were killed.
She was charged along with four other revolutionaries, including former Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin, who was granted parole in 2003. Clark is serving time at Bedford Hills Correctional Center in Westchester County.
Clark and her co-defendants said the goal of the 1981 robbery _ and others like it _ was to seize money to create a Republic of New Afrika consisting of former ``slave states.''
Memo to Judy: waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
rot in hell bitch!!
Typical d*mned liberal! The judge should have protected me from myself!
With a scheme like that she should have tried the insanity defense! Let her rot in jail.
"One who serves as their own attorney has a jackass for a client"
HEADS UP JUDY!
You rolled the dice beeotch, and it came up snake eyes.
You can get parole when the three people you murdered come back to life on Resurrection Day, how 'bout that?
Whoa, dude, Bill's not here man.. /Cheech & Chong mode
Throw away the key
Second degree murder for killing three people in an armed robbery? Oh, I fogot, this is in New York and she did have a noble cause. I'm surprised she was even charged much less convicted.
So let's see. It took her 23 years to figure out that her lawyer was an incompetent moron?
Other than that, I'll bet her 2005 political views are indistinguishanle from Botox Barbara Boxer, or any other liberal democrat vermin.
We ought to let her bunk in with Laura Berenson in the Peruvian prison; some cool weather will do her good.
You know that if some neocommuist judge let her out, she'd be teaching at some left wing college within 6 months.
Let me get this right; the judge was wrong when he granted her request, years ago, and on that basis, she should get out. If the judge, today, agreed, wouldn't that be an incentive for some/many/most criminals to represent themselves, thereby, inducing an error that would lead to freedom years or months down the road? And, conversely, should the judge have refused her request, wouldn't that have represented an appealable issue?
Nah, just turn off her CSPAN!
I know that there's no statute of limitations on murder, is there a statute of limitations on treason? If not I'd say grant her request for a new trial, add a federal treason charge based on their own statements about their goal, convict them and then hang them (or put them in front of a firing squad, at least give them a choice).
I think that at that time in NYC, the only 1st degree murder charge on the books was for killing a cop. Still, if she got 25 years for 2nd degree, she'll have the first one paid off in 3 years and then she only has to do 50 years for the other two, so she could be a spry 107 when she gets out - or not - and who cares?
So little Miss Red Rider would like to be released early, huh? The families of the three officers killed would like them returned to life, as well. When they are, I advocate granting her wish and releasing Miss Clark and her fellow felons.
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