Inside Bay Area reports that seven former members of the Black Liberation Army, including Ray Boudreaux and Henry Jones of Altadena, will enter pleas next month in the 1971 murder of San Francisco police sergeant John Young. 

According to Inside Bay Area:

All seven men are also facing charges of conspiracy to murder police officers for the attempted murder of four officers,                                                                                                                                  the bombing of a police officer’s funeral, the murder of two New York City police officers, the attempted bombing of the Mission police station and three armed bank robberies, all between 1968 and 1973, according to authorities.

An eighth defendant is charged with conspiracy to murder police officers, but is not charged in Young’s murder.  While the pleas will be entered Jan. 10, the actual trial may not get started until 2009.

The defendants, former members of a black militant organization, now range in age from their 50’s to 70’s.

(You may also remember another relic of that time — the SLA’s Emily Harris — lived in Altadena for several years until 2003, when she was convicted of second degree murder committed during a 1975 SLA bank robbery).