Talk:Percy Foreman

Adding a bit to the article
I have found some information to add to this article. One of my law professors described Percy Foreman as being one of the greatest American criminal defense lawyers that ever lived or words to that effect. Wish there were more source material on Foreman on the internet. Famspear 21:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Coldsprings, Texas[,] is located in San Jacinto County[.] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.169.94.50 (talk) 18:08, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

I added a link to the article for Judd, for the Defense, a TV series with a character allegedly based on Foreman. Famspear 15:19, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Foreman was born near Coldsprings, Texas, not "Boldsprings". I'm from there and have often heard older family members who knew him tell stories of him. Foremane also cooperated with a biography written inthe mid 1960's, goes fairly in depth regarding his bigger cases and his personality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.54.183.222 (talk) 23:35, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Famspear,
 * couldn't figure out how to respond to your message, so I posted it here, please feel free to delete. I wouldn't doubt that the Foremans were from S. Louisiana, many of the settlers in Polk and San Jacinto county were from there.  My uncle seems to have the most stories about Percy, he worked at the local gas station on weekends when he was a kid and remembered that they would have to get extra change for when Foreman came to visit his mother as the smallest bill percy carried was a 100, which was big money in east texas in the late 1940s.  Also I've heard old timers talk about Zemmie (or Zebbie) Foreman, percey's brother and argue whether he or Percey was the better trial lawyer.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.54.183.222 (talk) 19:40, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Famspear,
 * Here is a link to Foreman's father's obituary: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~polkcountytxconnections/Obit-RPForeman.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.54.183.222 (talk) 19:48, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow, thanks! Yours, Famspear (talk) 20:13, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

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Gohmert's aspersed asparagus
I'm not sure how much we really want to go citing Glenn Beck's program around here but the most relevant this guy's been in years just occurred as Gohmert—who earlier admitted he's used the asparagus line in Texas legal situations for years (i.e., it wasn't a malapropism or sign of dementia)—finally got around to crediting Asparagusgate to an old line of Foreman's after Holder brought it up again this year. — Llywelyn II   05:56, 11 April 2014 (UTC)


 * In the 1944 Three Stooges movie, "Busy Buddies," Curly says, "Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?" If Percy Foreman ever adapted that line as claimed by Louie Gohmert, one might expect to find a reliable reference to it.  An Internet search on Percy Foreman fails to yield any citation or reference to corroborate Gohmert's attribution of the "asparagus" quote to Percy Foreman. —Moulton (talk) 13:27, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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Percy Foreman's Controversies
This biography of Foreman avoids any mention of his documented railroading of James Earl Ray after basically forcing his way into becoming his lawyer. This includes lying to him about his case being the easiest to defend in his career, saying he wouldn't be involved in any book or movie deals, and forcing him into pleading guilty. He was also involved in a scandal with H.L. Hunt with getting someone to plead guilty, saying the Hunts were mob connected and he might be killed. 174.194.193.23 (talk) 22:43, 15 August 2022 (UTC)