Krell '03 Comments on Arrests in 71 Murder of SF Officer

Maggy Krell '03, deputy state attorney general, commented in the San Francisco Chronicle on seven arrests made in connection with the 1971 murder of San Francisco Sergeant John V. Young. Authorities allege that the suspects were members of the Black Liberation Army, a militant group that operated from about 1971 to 1981, made up largely of former Black Panthers. During a press conference on January 23, 2007, Krell said that there is no statute of limitation for conspiracy to commit murder, but the death penalty will not be involved because it did not exist in California at the time of the crime. The attorney general's office is prosecuting Young's murder, Krell said, because the investigation involved a number of agencies in several jurisdictions that together were known as the Phoenix Task Force.

San Francisco Chronicle/January 23, 2007