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...hired Memphis Attorney Richard J. Ryan to seek to overturn the 99-year sentence Ray accepted last month in return for a guilty plea. Judge W. Preston Battle, 60, the tough jurist who sentenced Ray, was found dead of a heart attack last week. Judge Arthur Faquin, appointed to take charge of Ray's case, must now rule whether a letter found among Battle's files constitutes a valid petition by Ray for a new trial...
...Died. W. Preston Battle, 60, Tennessee criminal-court judge who came to national prominence during the non-trial of James Earl Ray for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; of a heart attack; in Memphis. Battle accepted a deal under which Ray pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to 99 years in prison. In response to the outcry that followed, the judge argued that a trial would still have left the issue of conspiracy and other questions up in the air. "My conscience," he said, "told me that it better served the ends of justice to accept...
...planning to come back." In deed, almost as soon as Ray had be come a prisoner, he wrote to Judge W. Preston Battle asking for a new trial...
...Angeles bartenders' academy? How did he pay for his flight from Memphis to Toronto, and thence to Europe? Even Ray wanted to talk about a conspiracy at his trial. But neither the prosecution nor the defense was interested, and Ray was swiftly sidetracked by Judge W. Preston Battle in Memphis. Throughout the 137 anticlimactic minutes, while Battle recorded Ray's submission of guilt, empaneled a jury to hear pro forma evidence of his crime and then passed a sentence, not a single one of the questions that nag the public's curiosity was ever answered...
James Reed Ellis, 47, looks like a university professor: compact, neat, with greying hair and blue eyes behind horn rimmed glasses. Ellis is, in fact, a corporate lawyer in the firm of Preston, Thorgrimson, Horowitz, Starin &; Ellis. He is also that rarest of citizens, a practical leader...