New Jersey
Office of the Governor | Statement from Governor Murphy on the New Jersey Supreme Court Granting Sundiata Acoli Parole
Assertion from Governor Murphy on the New Jersey Supreme Courtroom Granting Sundiata Acoli Parole
“I’m deeply disillusioned that Sundiata Acoli, a person who murdered Trooper Werner Foerster in chilly blood in 1973, will likely be launched from jail. In 1996, Governor Whitman signed a regulation making certain that anybody who murders an officer on responsibility will obtain life in jail with out the potential of parole, and I profoundly want this regulation had been in place when Acoli was sentenced in 1974. Our women and men in uniform are heroes, and anybody who would take the lifetime of an officer on responsibility ought to stay behind bars till the top of their life.”