Talk:Leroy R. Hassell Sr.

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It is a shame that someone in Justice Hassell's position with his background could still be so corrupt. He had a chance to really make real changes in Virginia. He chose to play along instead, ignoring and even opposing the exposure many whistle blowers were disclosing. While some of the material in the wikipedia article appears to have ben drawn from the AP story that is suggested as the copyrighted source, the AP story has much more detail overall and the wikipedia artcle has information that the AP story does not (i.e. noting that Hassell was voted most likely to succeed in high school). Though two or three sentences appear to be identical, or nearly so, to sentences in the AP story, it is clearly not a "cut and paste" job. I copied the text of both articles to Word documents and did a "compare documents. There was no single paragraph that was exactly parallel to the AP story and more than half of the information in the AP story is not found in the wikipedia article. Perhaps the solution is to include a reference to the AP story?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.210.219.131 (talk) 18:10, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Cause of Death?
Article and everything in print omits the cause of death. One source said Hassell appeared at a bar meeting to receive an award last month (January 2011) appearing frail and complaining of side effects of new medicine he was receiving. Last report showed he was admitted to a hospital due to an infection. Can anyone supply the cause of death for this high-ranking public official in Virginia and important historical figure?71.191.247.254 (talk) 18:52, 10 February 2011 (UTC)