Biography
Boudreaux, another former Black Panther swept into the reopened 1971 investigation, became publicly associated with criticism of the renewed prosecution and with efforts to highlight alleged coercion and procedural irregularities surrounding the decades-old evidence.
He was arrested in January 2007 in the San Francisco 8 sweep and initially faced murder and conspiracy allegations tied to the 1971 police killing. As the case narrowed and remaining defendants entered pleas, charges against Boudreaux were dismissed in 2009.
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement submission reports that Jones, Boudreaux and John Bowman were detained in August 2005 for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the 1971 San Francisco police killing. This contempt episode preceded the separate 2007 prosecution. The submission gives the month of detention but no actual discharge day or complete custody duration, and attributes allegations of torture in the earlier 1973 investigation to the advocacy account. Source: https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/media/publications/10.%20Political%20Prisoners%20in%20the%20United%20States%2C%20ICCPR%20Coalition%20Report.pdf#page=10
