A judge has disqualified an attorney and his firm from representing the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in its battle with King’s daughter over the slain civil rights icon’s Nobel Peace Prize and Bible, ruling that William Hill Jr.’s role as a special master in a previous wrangle over King’s possessions mandated his removal from the ongoing case.
Wednesday’s order by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said that Hill’s representation of the estate was “sufficiently connected” to a 2008 suit filed by Bernice King and her brother, Martin Luther King III, against the estate and its CEO, Dr. King’s son Dexter King, to run afoul of legal ethics rules.
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