Cuomo grants clemency to ex-Weather Underground murder convict before leaving office

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In one of his last acts as New York governor, Andrew Cuomo recommended parole on Monday for murder convict David Gilbert, a former member of the Weather Underground terrorist group.

Cuomo granted clemency to six individuals, including Gilbert, 76, a man convicted of three counts of second-degree murder in 1983 and four counts of first-degree robbery in a 1981 truck robbery that led to the deaths of two police officers and a security guard.

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