Talk:William F. Pepper

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Perhaps it would be best if rather than just making a delete, some description of the controversy were added. 71.184.4.152 09:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

The article says "He was the attorney for James Earl Ray, the convicted killer..."; this contradicts the James Earl Ray and MLK Assassination articles, which both indicate that James Earl Ray never went to trial. Someone that was not tried cannot have been convicted - he was instead sentenced on the basis of his guilty plea. --67.98.226.14 (talk) 15:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually it does not contradict the James Earl Ray article. from that article:

James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was convicted of the assassination of American civil rights leader [[MARTI LUTHER KING [MLK], Jr.|Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]]...

Jons63 (talk) 15:43, 4 April 2008 (UTC):

This is the most ridiculous argument I've ever seen. An accepted guilty plea yields a conviction just the same as an accepted guilty verdict. Otherwise, every convicted felon in the world would be able to just plead guilty and then claim that they aren't convicted felons, as they were never convicted. 24.14.224.157 (talk) 05:22, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Cite references tag removal

It looks like a fair number of references have been added to this article, so I'm removing the "cite references" tag. Ghostofnemo (talk) 06:04, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Ah, I see, I moved the "BLP sources" tag to the "Other activties" section. Ghostofnemo (talk) 06:14, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:William F. Pepper/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

While William F Pepper is indeed a respected jurist and brought a number of fascinating things to light regarding James Earl Ray over the years, using the sentence "The evidence was unimpeachable" in the Wikipedia article about him is certainly misleading and disingenuous. A good portion of the evidence was questionable and likely would not survive an actual court discovery process. It is important to realize the (moot) court proceedings were conducted on (and possibly for) television, even if Mr Pepper did not seem to pander to the cameras. I suggest removing the line so as to maintain an objective, or at least more impartial, tone to the entry. 71.255.225.223 06:39, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Substituted at 22:06, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Death

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