ACOLI v. NEW JERSEY STATE PAROLE

A-73 September Term 2020 083980.

273 A.3d 426 (2022)

250 N.J. 431

Sundiata ACOLI, a/k/a Clark Edward Squire, Appellant, v. NEW JERSEY STATE PAROLE BOARD, Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided May 10, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce I. Afran , Princeton, argued the cause for appellant ( Bruce I. Afran , on the briefs).

Stephanie Cohen , Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent ( Andrew J. Bruck , Acting Attorney General, attorney; Jane C. Schuster , Assistant Attorney General, of counsel and on the brief, and Christopher C. Josephson , Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).

Joseph J. Russo , Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for amicus curiae Public Defender of New Jersey ( Joseph E. Krakora , Public Defender, attorney; Scott M. Welfel , Assistant Deputy Public Defender, of counsel and on the brief, and Joseph J. Russo , Hackensack, on the brief).

Alexander Shalom , Newark, argued the cause for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Foundation and Rutgers Law School Constitutional Rights Clinic, attorneys; Alexander Shalom and Jeanne LoCicero , of counsel and on the brief, and Ronald K. Chen , on the brief).

Raymond Brown argued the cause for amicus curiae Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey (Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, attorneys; CJ Griffin , on the brief).

Lawrence S. Lustberg , Newark, submitted a brief on behalf of amicus curiae American Friends Service Committee (Gibbons, attorneys; Lawrence S. Lustberg and Michael R. Noveck , on the brief).

Richard Lomurro , Freehold, submitted a brief on behalf of amicus curiae National Conference of Black Lawyers (Lomurro, Munson, Comer, Brown & Schottland and Howard University School of Law, Movement Lawyering Clinic, attorneys; Richard Lomurro , of counsel and on the brief, Emeka Nkwuo , of counsel, and Justin Hansford , a member of the Maryland bar, admitted pro hac vice, on the brief).

Jennifer B. Condon submitted a brief on behalf of amicus curiae Center for Constitutional Rights (Seton Hall University School of Law Center for Social Justice, attorneys; Jennifer B. Condon , on the brief).

Andrew Robert Burroughs , Florida, submitted a brief on behalf of amici curiae the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, the Black Police Experience, Blacks in Law Enforcement of America, and the Grand Council of Guardians (Burroughs Law and Harvard Law School Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, attorneys; Andrew Robert Burroughs , and Katharine Naples-Mitchell , a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars, admitted pro hac vice, on the brief).


Sundiata Acoli, now eighty-five years old, has been imprisoned for forty-nine years for his role in the murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster and the wounding of State Trooper James Harper in 1973. He has been a model inmate and infraction-free for more than twenty-five years. During that time...

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