Word: boudin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such requests are rarely granted, but the lawyer. Leonard Boudin, said last week he felt the June 28 decision was so unusual he thought there was a good chance the court might be willing to take a second look at the case...
...seven political extremists charged in connection with the $1.6 million robbery of a Brink's armored truck in New York's Rockland County in 1981, the most notorious was Kathy Boudin, a member of the violent Weather Underground during the late 1960s. Daughter of prominent New York Civil Rights Attorney Leonard Boudin, she had been a fugitive since 1970, when she fled from a Greenwich Village town house that was destroyed by the explosion of a bomb factory secreted inside. Boudin pleaded innocent to charges of robbery and murder in the Brink's case, in which...
...case. The defendants, who were drawn from such other vestiges of the '60s as the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army, claimed they planned to use the "expropriated" Brink's money to establish the "Republic of New Afrika" in the Southern U.S. Appearing chastened but calm, Boudin told Judge David Ritter: "I feel terrible about the lives that were lost. I have led a life of commitment to political principles, and I think I can be true to those principles without engaging in violent acts...
...extraordinary new precautions are for the trial of self-styled Revolutionaries Kathy Boudin and Samuel Brown, who are charged with murder and robbery in the 1981 Brink's armored-car holdup. And if the security is awesome, so is the price tag. Westchester County officials estimate that by the time the trial ends, perhaps in August, it will have cost $3.5 million above day-to-day court expenses...
...Boudin, who recently wrote a book review published in the journal, comments, "By the time they were through, I was exhausted but very impressed with the improvements they had made...