Brinks robbery getaway driver Judith Clark will have access to letters from law enforcement officers and survivors opposing her release from prison at a new parole hearing this spring.
An appeals court granted the former Weather Underground radical’s request for the documents after the parole board withheld them during a release hearing last year.
Her lawyer said that withholding the letters “interfered with her ability to exercise her rights to a fair and just parole process.”
The board claimed the document suppression was an error, but a harmless one.
The appeals court disagreed in a decision released Tuesday.
She was denied parole in April 2017 — 36 years into a 75-to-life sentence.
The parole board members ruled that even though they found Clark was rehabilitated, she should stay locked up because of the “seriousness of her crime” and “public opposition” to her release.
Clark drove the getaway car in the infamous 1981 robbery in which two state cops and a security guard were killed.
On Tuesday the appellate court also granted Clark a new hearing, but she’s already entitled to a second one under the law. It’s scheduled for April.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted her clemency in 2016 citing her “exceptional strides in self-development,” making her eligible for an early release.
A spokesman for the parole board declined to comment.