>> i feel that my family, mr. ray and the american people have been unjustly denied the due process that is the birthright of every citizen. >> we came very close to getting a real trial for james, because there was a black judge called joe brown. >> i would object to the entire line of questioning. >> we're trying to get the facts. we've got dr. king dead, in his grave, a national hero, a world hero of national holiday named after him, and i'm not going to allow the vocicitudes of somebody's artful cross-examination to keep me as trier of fact from getting to the bottom of this. overruled. >> and judge brown ruled in 1997 that they could retest the weapon. ballistics experts fired ray's weapon 18 times to see if they could get a match. the results were inconclusive. but farris says one of those experts privately told him