THE FACTS
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports that Martin Luther King III and Bernice King have been ordered to release personal papers and letters belonging to their late mother to their younger brother Dexter King.
 

THE SPIN
Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville sent a message to Martin III and Bernice about turning over the more than 700 boxes containing Coretta Scott King’s documents: “The parties have a duty to fully cooperate in the protocol established. Any party failing to adhere to any court order … may face sanctions.”

Those sanctions include jail time. Glanville’s special instructions included turning over the boxes 80 at a time.

Dexter King wants the belongings so he can use material for a planned autobiography of his mother. His siblings have been in dispute with him on how to use personal material since their mother’s death in 2006.

Isn’t it sad they have to go to court to settle family squabbles?

YOUR SPIN:  If the King’s were alive, what would they say about their children?  Tell us here.

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THE FACTS
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports that Dexter, Bernice, and Martin Luther King III are all in dispute over a book deal negotiated by Dexter.

THE SPIN
So Dexter King negotiated a $1.4 million book contract for an autobiography of Corretta Scott King. The book is said to include “intimate correspondence” between she and her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King. However, Bernice has refused to hand over the letters, photos and other personal papers found in Mrs. King’s home after her death in 2006. She and Martin Luther King III say their mother had severe reservations about the Rev. Barbara Reynolds, the journalist-turned minister who would co-write the autobiography using her taped conversations with Mrs. King. And they say their brother is shutting them out as head of the family corporation that controls the rights to their father’s work.

The siblings have since gone to court over the letters. Regardless of the outcome, isn’t it a bit tacky to hawk your parents’ love letters for a book?

YOUR SPIN: What should the King family do?  Tell us here.

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