SUNDIATA ACOLI NEEDS YOUR LETTERS OF SUPPORT FOR PAROLE!-gctid54994

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4/11/2012Sundiata Acoli Wins Appeal and is Up for Parole Again  Attorney Bruce Afran's appeal of Sundiata Acoli's parole-denial and 10 year hit resulted in the New Jersey Appellate Court's remand to the NJ Parole Board that its 10 year hit be cut to 3 years. It was done and Sundiata has become immediately eligible for a parole hearing again. The Appellate Court must still rule on Sundiata's 2010 denial of parole but meanwhile he's preparing to go before the parole board again for his newly won 2012 parole hearing. In that regards he would greatly appreciate any and all letters sent to the parole board urging that he be released.  Sundiata is 75 years of age and has been in prison 39 years resulting from a stop of his car by state troopers on the NJ Turnpike, in 1973, which erupted in gunfire that resulted in the death of his passenger, Zayd Shakur, and a state trooper, Werner Foerster. The other passenger, Assata Shakur,* was critically wounded and captured on the scene where another trooper, James Harper, was also wounded. Sundiata was wounded at the scene, captured in the woods 40 hours later and subsequently sentenced to life in NJ State prison.  Sundiata is now the longest held prisoner in New Jersey's history of similar convictions. He has maintained an outstanding record in prison and has had only a few minor disciplinary reports over the past 30 years and none during the last 16 years. He's also maintained an excellent work and scholastic record and has always been a positive influence in prison, particularly in mentoring prisoners toward becoming crime-free benefactors to the community upon return to society and thereby break their cycle of recidivism.  Sundiata is a 75 year old grandfather who has long been rehabilitated, has long satisfied all requirements for parole and has no or "little likelihood of committing another crime:" which is the main criterion for parole in New Jersey. Sundiata is an old man, in declining health, who wishes to live out the... Read more

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