Martin Luther King III and Bernice King were ordered by a Fulton County Superior Court judge on Friday evening to turn over personal papers and letters belonging to their late mother to their younger brother, Dexter King, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville specified just how the more than 700 boxes containing Coretta Scott King’s documents should be turned over to the court in an order released late Friday evening. The children of the civil rights legend Martin Luther King, Jr., have to turn over the documents “80 boxes at a time” or else, the judge wrote. “Any party failing to adhere to any court order … may face sanctions,” he said, adding that those sanctions could include jail time, said Don Plummer, a court spokesman. The King siblings only partially followed a previous court order, Plummer said. Some boxes were produced, but many contained other belongings of Mrs. King, not just documents. Dexter King took his siblings to court get letters sent between civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife for a book he wants to publish on his mother, Coretta Scott King. He asked for the letters on behalf of King Inc., the family corporation that controls King’s intellectual property, but his brother and sister have resisted.

Accused courthouse shooter’s letters describes escape plan.

He had planned to escape, hold up in a hotel or condo in Atlanta, Charlotte or Florida and laugh at police searching in the wrong place for him, Brian Nichols, the defendant in the Atlanta courthouse shooting, wrote in letters revealed in court on Monday. Prosecutors said Nichols wrote to a Connecticut woman, Lisa Meneguzzo, professing love for her as he detailed how she could help him escape from the Fulton County Jail in 2006, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The two handwritten letters were read to the jury over the objection of Nichols’ defense team as prosecutors used Nichols’ own words to show he is a methodical and ruthless killer. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity for the deaths of four people after he allegedly beat a deputy in a holding cell and escaped from the Fulton County Courthouse on March 11, 2005. The prosecution has sought in recent days to wrap up its case after 16 days and more than 70 witnesses. They’ve played a videotape of Nichols’ three-hour-long confession; read writings he left behind in a jail holding cell; and played an audiotape of a phone call Nichols made from jail to his father in which Nichols said: “I could have saved them some time and money and told them there was nothing wrong … with me.” Meneguzzo began writing Nichols after his case made national headlines. A senior investigator for the Fulton County district attorney’s office, G.G. Carawan, testified authorities were alerted to Meneguzzo after they discovered a cell phone in Nichols’ cell in March 2007 and checked the phone records. Prosecutors said Nichols and Meneguzzo wrote 58 letters to each other, only two of which were read by GBI forensics documents expert Brian McVicker. In the first, which starts “Hey Lisa,” Nichols tells Meneguzzo he loves her and looks forward to the day they can have a romantic, candlelit interlude with champagne, strawberries, a bubble bath and chocolate.