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Assata Shakur accomplice gets parole in trooper’s 1973 death

FILE — Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, leaves Middlesex County courthouse, in New Brunswick, N.J., April 25, 1977. A split New Jersey Supreme Court granted parole Tuesday, May 10. 2022, to Sundiata Acoli, a former militant convicted in the 1973 death of a New Jersey state trooper, in a case that has resonated for decades and been a thorny issue in U.S.-Cuba relations. Acoli's more-famous co-defendant, Chesimard, also was convicted and sentenced to a life term but escaped from a New Jersey prison in 1979. She was given asylum in Cuba by then-President Fidel Castro and remains a fugitive. (AP Photo, File) FILE — New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, who was killed during a stop on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973, is shown in this undated file photo. A split New Jersey Supreme Court granted parole Tuesday, May 10. 2022, to Sundiata Acoli, a former militant convicted in the 1973 death of Foerster, in a case that has resonated for decades and been a thorny issue in U.S.-Cuba relations. (AP Photo/Tim Larsen, File) FILE — A portrait of New Jersey State Police trooper Werner Foerster is displayed during an event unveiling a monument in his honor, Nov. 18, 2015, in East Brunswick, N.J. A split New Jersey Supreme Court granted parole Tuesday, May 10. 2022, to Sundiata Acoli, a former militant convicted in the 1973 death of Foerster, in a case that has resonated for decades and been a thorny issue in U.S.-Cuba relations. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Assata Shakur accomplice gets parole in trooper’s 1973 death