An Albany judge has ruled that the widow of one of two police officers killed in a 1971 ambush in Harlem by members of the Black Liberation Army cannot block the state parole board’s decision to release Herman Bell, one of the men convicted in the murders.
Acting Albany Supreme Court Justice Richard Koweek found that the widow does not have standing to challenge the New York State Parole Board’s 2-1 vote that Bell, 70, should be released, find that the board’s decision was not “irrational, nor did it border on impropriety”
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