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SENTENCED. David Gilbert, 40, Judith Clark, 33, and Kuwasi Balagoon, 36, radical gang members convicted of the murders of a guard and two police officers in the $1.6 million Brink's armored-car robbery of October 1981; each to a minimum of 75 years in prison; in Goshen, N.Y. The would-be revolutionaries will serve three consecutive terms of 25 years to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 17, 1983 | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...three radical killers, David Gilbert, Judith Clark and Kuwasi Balagoon, did not even bother to attend the reading of the verdict, which found them guilty of killing a Brink's guard and two police officers during a $1.6 million robbery in New York's Rockland County. Gilbert tried to turn his day of reckoning into a celebration by marrying Weather Underground Radical Kathy Boudin. After the brief ceremony, conducted by a jail chaplain and sealed by a kiss, the two were hauled off to separate cells. Boudin and another Brink's suspect, Samuel Brown, will begin their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Reckoning Day | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...current Goshen trial, Gribetz has also been meticulous. He introduced 84 witnesses and 540 pieces of evidence in the process of building a case against Defendants Judith Clark, 33, David Gilbert, 39, and Kuwasi Balagoon, 36. In federal court, the four-month trial of the six defendants involved more than 100 witnesses. To be sure, the presentation of both cases was made easier by the refusal of some defendants to offer a standard defense. The three Goshen suspects early on pronounced the trial "illegitimate," because they consider themselves to be "freedom fighters" and "prisoners of war." They declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Trials on Twin Tracks | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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