San Francisco D.A. Chesa Boudin's Father Granted Parole After 40 Years In Prison

From CBS San Francisco:

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBS SF/AP) — The father of San Francisco’s district attorney was granted parole this week, 40 years after he was imprisoned for his role in a deadly 1981 Brink’s truck robbery, the state corrections department said Tuesday.

Former Weather Underground radical David Gilbert, 76, has been behind bars since the infamously botched armored car robbery in which a guard and two police officers were killed. He became eligible for parole only after his 75 years-to-life sentence was shortened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in August, hours before he left office.

Gilbert appeared before the state parole board Oct. 19 and was subsequently granted parole, Thomas Mailey, a spokesperson for the New York state corrections department, said Tuesday.

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