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FILE - In this June 18, 2007, file photo, Ed and Elaine Brown talk to reporters during a news conference at their home in Plainfield, N.H. Elaine Brown, who took part in armed standoff to protest tax evasion conviction, can be released after serving over 12 years in prison, a federal judge ruled Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. Brown, 78, was resentenced in federal court in New Hampshire after a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year affected her case. One charge, which carried a mandatory minimum 30-year sentence, was vacated. She is scheduled to be released Feb. 28. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

Woman who was in armed standoff over tax evasion to be freed

By KATHY McCORMACK - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2007, file photo, Ed and Elaine Brown talk to reporters during a news conference at their home in Plainfield, N.H. Years after they were imprisoned for amassing an arsenal of weapons at their fortress-like home, and holding U.S. marshals at bay after a tax evasion conviction, Elaine Brown said she is ashamed of her actions and seeks a divorce while awaiting re-sentencing in 2020 in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

Government: Tax evader in standoff should not be released

By KATHY McCORMACK - Associated Press

Imprisoned New Hampshire tax evader ashamed, wants divorce

By KATHY McCORMACK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, Oakland City council member Desley Brooks, center, speaks at a City Council meeting at City Hall in Oakland, Calif. Brooks has filed a claim against the city or Oakland alleging the City Attorney's Office botched its case representing her from a lawsuit filed by a former Black Panther leader. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Oakland councilwoman claims city bungled case against her

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FILE- In this Oct. 8, 2016 file photo, former Black Panther Party leader Elaine Brown answers questions outside a museum in Oakland, Calif. A Northern California jury has awarded more than $4 million in punitive damages to Brown, who was injured after Oakland councilwoman Desley Brooks pushed her during an argument over housing in 2015. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Jury awards $4 million to ex-Black Panther Elaine Brown

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FILE - This Jan. 17, 2007, file photo shows the home of Ed and Elaine Brown in Plainfield, N.H. The Brown's were convicted in 2009 of amassing weapons, explosives and booby traps and plotting to kill federal agents who came to arrest them in the home. After an auction to empty chairs in August, marshals in New Hampshire are attempting to regroup and hire a professional auctioneer and the officials in the two towns owed substantial back taxes on the properties are more frustrated than ever. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

Hard sell: 100-acre N.H. property possibly littered with booby traps scares off bidders

By Lynne Tuohy - Associated Press

Former Black Panther leader to speak at VCU

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