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oanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, leaves Middlesex County courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J. Now known as Assata Shakur, she was convicted in 1977 of killing a New Jersey state trooper four years earlier, in a case that drew international attention. She was sentenced to life in prison but escaped. She wound up in Cuba in the 1980s and like other fugitives with political asylum here, once was living so openly in Havana that her number was listed in the phone book. (AP Photo, File)

oanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, leaves Middlesex County courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J. Now known as Assata Shakur, she was convicted in 1977 of killing a New Jersey state trooper four years earlier, in a case that drew international attention. She was sentenced to life in prison but escaped. She wound up in Cuba in the 1980s and like other fugitives with political asylum here, once was living so openly in Havana that her number was listed in the phone book. (AP Photo, File)

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