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Judith Clark, who as a young woman took part in a deadly robbery of a Brink’s armored car that represented one of the last gasps of the violent left-wing extremism of the 1960s and 1970s, was paroled on Wednesday after being imprisoned in New York for 37 years, her lawyers said.

Ms. Clark, 69, was the getaway driver in the bungled 1981 heist in a suburb of New York City in which two police officers and a guard were killed.

After her arrest and during her trial, Ms. Clark remained defiant in her revolutionary beliefs. She said she was “an anti-imperialist freedom fighter” and maintained violence was “a liberating force.”

But during her decades in prison, she has said she abandoned those beliefs and faced the pain she had caused the victims and their families. “I had to grapple with what happened to my humanity,” she said in 2017. She apologized, devoted herself to good works and became a model of rehabilitation.