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Attorney William F. Pepper provided an update on his investigation into the RFK assassination as well as his work researching the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. On his efforts to get a new trial for Sirhan Sirhan, Pepper said that their legal brief, which includes revelations about fraudulent ballistics evidence in the original trial, will likely be denied, but they will take the case "as far as we can to get justice for this man." Regarding the murder of MLK Jr., Pepper detailed how alleged assassin James Earl Ray had been "profiled" by the FBI as a potential patsy long before the murder and was carefully moved around the country in order to place him in Memphis when the crime was committed. Ultimately, Pepper mused that " the ruling forces of this republic had their interests served by all of these assassinations," since RFK and MLK as well as Malcolm X threatened "business as usual" for the establishment. Biography: William Francis Pepper is a barrister in the United Kingdom and admitted to the bar in numerous jurisdictions in the United States of America. His primary work is international commercial law. He has represented governments in the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Asia. Today, Pepper represents Sirhan Sirhan, the gunman convicted in the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968. Bill Pepper was a friend of Martin Luther King in the last year of his life. Some years after King's death, Bill Pepper went on to represent James Earl Ray in ...