Robert talks with NPR's Cheryl Corley about the effort to gain a trial for James Earl Ray. Attorneys for Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., are in a Memphis courtroom today. They're asking a judge to order tests that could determine if a rifle with Ray's fingerprints on it was really the murder weapon. Ray pleaded guilty to killing the civil rights leader and never stood trial. He later recanted, and this is his eighth attempt to get a trial. At today's hearing, Coretta Scott King read a statement asking for a trial for the man who confessed to killing her husband in 1968.
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