NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 27, 1984 Page 11
Radical pleads guilty for Brink's episode
By United Press International
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. — Kathy Boudin, 1690's radical at the core of the leadership of the Weather Underground, entered a surprise guilty plea Thursday to murder and robbery in the 1891 Brink's armored car holdup.
Boudin, 40, admitted her guilt to one count each of second-degree murder and first-degree robbery as part of an agreement with prosecutors to drop 11 other murder, assault and weapons charges.
"I feel terrible about the lives of the people lost in the incident," Boudin told state Supreme Court Justice David Ritter,
'I feel terrible about the lives of the people lost in the incident.'
SHE WAS CAPTURED after 11 years in the underground, following the bungled $1.6 million robbery that resulted in the death of a Brink's guard and two county policemen. The money was recovered
She could have faced 75 years to life
- Kathy Boudin
in prison if convicted on all 13 counts but Ritter indicated he would sentence her May 3 to a term of 20 years to life. The trial may not be eligible for parole until 2001.
"I initiated discussion with the district attorney because I sensed for the first time there would be reasonable judgment brought to bear on this case," her attorney, Leonard Weinglass, said.
minutes after Bouin pleaded guilty, her father described her as a "wonderful human being" devoted to humanity.
"In one sense it's sort of an end of a certain part of one's life, but I'm not prepared to say we're relieved," said Leonard Boudin, a civil rights attorney "I can't look at this only as a lawyer."
"I WANT TO SAY that Kathy's life of almost 41 years . . . has been a life of devotion to humanity," said Boudin, whose wife. Jeon, stood beside him.
One of Boudin's comrades from the student movement of the 1960s, Bernardine Dohrn, declined comment about Boudin's plea.
"Even the events of this case don't change my view," he said. "She really knows."
Boudin's mother sat during the proceedings holding baby pictures of her son.
Boudin, who escaped a 1970 "bomb
boutine" explosion in New York
Germany, was killed in a plane.
Samuel Brown, 40, in the Oct. 20, 1981,
armored car holdup in Nayack, N.Y.
Three other co-defendants, including Boudin's husband, David Gilbert, were convicted in the case last fall and are serving jail terms of 75 years. Proceedings against co-defendant Samuel Brown, 40, will continue.
ALTHOUGH MOST OF her colleagues from the 1960s surfaced during the 1970s, Boulton remained at large until the shootout in Nayack, N.Y., when she ran to an off-duty New York corrections officer and gave herself up.
Boudin attended private schools in New York. At Bryn Mawr, the exclusive liberal arts college in the Philadelphia area, she became an educator. In 1905 she attended the University of Moscow and lived for a time in Leningrad.
By 1968 she was a force in Students for a Democratic Society.
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