Biography
Irving Young was a member of the Baltimore Black Panther Party whom police alleged had driven Eugene Leroy Anderson and his killers to Leakin Park in July 1969; his case went to trial in November 1970. Eugene Leroy Anderson, a 20-year-old Panther sympathizer, was tortured and shot to death in July 1969 and his body left in Baltimore's Leakin Park, where it was found on October 27, 1969. Maryland authorities charged some 21 members of the Baltimore Black Panther Party — a prosecution widely seen as an attempt to destroy the chapter — but no one was ultimately convicted of the killing except one defendant, who was released after four years by Governor Marvin Mandel.
The Baltimore chapter reports Young’s actual arrest around April 30, 1970 among seventeen people accused in the killing of Eugene Leroy Anderson. It reports that his first-degree-murder trial lasted six days and ended in conviction. The account does not establish the exact arrest day, sentence or release and does not replace the later sentencing evidence already recorded. The Black Panther, December19,1970 volV no25, original PDF page 5. Source: https://washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1970-12-19-bpp-.pdf#page=5
The article identifies Irving "Ochika" Young, names Hillary D. Caplan as prosecutor, and reports the jury verdict guilty in the first degree after six trial days. It calls him a convicted political prisoner.
Life imprisonment, imposed February 1, 1971 after the jury recommended against capital punishment. Young filed an appeal.
