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Joanne Chesimard, convicted in infamous murder of NJ trooper, dies in Cuba

September 26, 2025 10:39 amSeptember 26, 2025 7:47 pm

Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Liberation Army convicted in the 1973 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, died Thursday at age 78. She became one of the state’s most infamous...

Temporary Supreme Court Justice who was deciding vote on cop killer release got to the bench as part of an old-fashioned political deal

May 16, 2022 12:40 amMay 16, 2022 5:12 pm

When the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the release of a notorious cop killer last week, the deciding vote was cast by Jose L. Fuentes, a onetime Hudson County political insider with ambitions for high public office, who is on...

N.J. Supreme Court orders release of Sundiata Acoli, who killed state trooper in 1973

May 10, 2022 12:03 pm

On a 3-2 vote, the New Jersey Supreme Court today ordered the release on parole of Sundiata Acoli, a former Black Panther who infamously killed New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973. The decision comes after a long process...

Hugin says U.S.-Cuba relations starts with Chesimard return

May 2, 2018 4:45 pm

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin marked the 45th anniversary of the death of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster with a statement calling on Cuba to return his killer, Joanne Chesimard, to the United States. “It is with sadness...