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Sundiata Acoli is coming home! The Bring Sundiata Acoli Home Alliance applauds the New Jersey Supreme Court for granting Mr. Acoli’s freedom and correcting the parole board’s impropr application of the law by denying his petition for release after serving more than 49 years in prison. Sundiata will be able to live the rest of his life in ...
26 de may. de 2022 · Sundiata Acoli. Sundiata Acoli, a former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army member who was convicted in the 1973 shooting death of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, was freed Wednesday after nearly a half-century in prison. Acoli, 85, imprisoned for his role in one of the Garden State’s most notorious crimes, left South ...
Sundiata Acoli, a New Afrikan political prisoner of war, mathematician, and computer analyst, was born January 14, 1937, in Decatur, Texas, and raised in Vernon, Texas. He graduated from Prairie View A & M College of Texas in 1956 with a B.S. in mathematics and for the next 13 years worked for various computer-oriented firms ...
10 de may. de 2022 · The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the state to free Sundiata Acoli, rejecting the state Parole Board’s claims that the 85-year-old should stay in prison for the 1973 slaying of a state trooper. The ruling, split 3-2 along party lines, brings to a close a decades-long battle by Acoli’s supporters to release him 49 years after ...
28 de mar. de 2021 · Sundiata Acoli is 84 years old and has been in prison for nearly half a century. When the state of New Jersey locked him up in 1974, Acoli was not sentenced to die behind bars; he has been ...
26 de may. de 2022 · It granted Acoli, a Black political prisoner and U.S. prisoner of war, parole on May 10. Acoli, now 85 and suffering from dementia and other serious health problems, plans to live with his daughter and grandchildren in New York City upon release. Sundiata Acoli. The story of Acoli’s near 50-year incarceration is unfortunately an all too ...
10 de may. de 2022 · Sundiata Acoli was an activist with the Black Liberation Army when he was involved in murdering a New Jersey State Police trooper in 1973. His parole was blocked for years despite an exemplary ...
