Word: raying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jail house Lawyer. Ray said that he was firing Foreman - to which the attorney retorted that his connection with the case had ended the moment that Ray was sentenced. Ray also indicated his intent to alter his plea to not guilty, even though conviction by a jury for murder in the first degree could land him on Nashville's Death...
...That advice was not lost on the formidable Percy Foreman when he set out to defend the assassin of Mar tin Luther King Jr. Foreman's way of doing that - to avoid having to argue be fore a jury against the damaging ev idence marshaled against James Earl Ray - was to make a deal with Prosecutor Phil M. Canale Jr. for a negotiated guilty plea. The result turned Ray's trial in Memphis into a formality that left unanswered questions of whether a conspiracy existed to murder King...
...court, Ray appeared to accept Fore man's advice, but he did not take long to change his mind. "He told me he was sorry he had pleaded guilty," Shelby County Sheriff William N. Morris Jr. said last week. Morris had spoken to Ray on the morning after he was sen tenced to a 99-year term in the state penitentiary in Nashville. Ray told...
...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...
Several new players will try to replace Ray Peters, who has signed a professional contract with Seattle. Major contenders are Tom DaShiell, Ken O'Connell, and sophomores Phil Collins, Tom Kidwell, and Curt Tucker...