REVEALED: Son of Weather Underground militant, 76, is now a San Francisco DA and is fighting for dad s release from jail over bungled $1.6million Brink s heist in 1981 that left a guard and two cops dead
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is seeking clemency from New York Gov Andrew Cuomo for his father, David Gilbert
Gilbert, 76, is serving a 75-year-old sentence for his role as unarmed getaway driver in the 1981 Brink s armored truck robbery that killed three men
Boudin was 14 months old when his parents, Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, both members of radical Weather Underground militant group, took part in the heist
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19). Viral contigs were generated by using default settings with Vicuna version 1.1 (
20), and a de novo consensus assembly was generated by using Viral Finishing and Annotation Toolkit (V-FAT) version 1.1 (https://www.broadinstitute.org/viral-genomics/v-fat). Read data are available from the National Center for Biotechnology Information Read Archive (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) under BioProject accession no. PRJNA661611.
Phylogenetic Reconstruction
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22). We then constructed a maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree with 1,000 ultrafast bootstrap replicates (
HCV Transmission Network Analyses
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