User talk:Pegarty

Hello, Paul: Yes, I am Pegarty Long, sister to the late Philomene Long wife of John Thomas Idlet. I am a newcomer to Wikipedia but I believe that I am following Wikipedia’s  guidelines. 1)Wikipedia asks that “Encyclopedic content must be verifiable.” The following facts are through John Thomas Idlet’s attorney records and court records are verifiable. 2) Wikipedia asks that “All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias.”  I am a witness to the events of John Thomas’s last years and after, and yes I have a personal point of view. But please note that the material that I have submitted is a neutral point of view. 3) Wikipedia asks that there is no original research. There is no original research.

Please see the following facts that are verifiable, a neutral point of view and with no original research: 1) Attorney for John Thomas, Jeffrey Douglas Esq. Records. Because his health would not withstand the demands of trial, despite important constitutional, legal and factual defenses, John pleaded no contest to the charge of one count of oral copulation with a person under the age of 16, not "child molestation" as mischaracterized in Gabrielle Idlet's article. The criminal prosecution was subsequently dismissed, based upon his death during the pendency of the appeal. [ATTORNEY JEFFREY DOUGLAS ESQ.] http://uslawyersdb.com/attorney6025 http://www.laweekly.com/2002-08-08/art-books/poetic-licentiousness

2) Settlements and Verdicts Records LA County, CA Los Angeles, CA: (Mar-21-07) The wife of noted Beat poet, John Thomas Idlet, filed a federal lawsuit against the LA Sheriff's Department following her husband's death while in police custody. Idlet had begun a four-month jail sentence for a sex offense when he fell sick and did not get to see a doctor for over two weeks. The suit accused the police department of negligence and failure to provide adequate medical care and alleged that the night before his death, Idlet went unexamined for three hours after he was found on the jail floor suffering from shortness of breath. The county reached a settlement and agreed to pay the widow $475,000 as compensation. [ABC NEWS: POLICE CUSTODY DEATH]

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/case/police-custody-death.html http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0455463p.pdf

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Hi Pegarty. I've commented on the talkpage of the article about various issues, and you may want return there for further posting of suggested sources etc and for answering this. As you will note in my comment there, a letter to the editor from Idlet's lawyer isn't an appropriate source for facts, just in the same way that Gabrielle Idlout's account isn't reliable for anything other than her opinion. That means that if you want the article to include that the criminal prosecution was dismissed we need a better source that the letter to the editor, which don't have the kind of fact checking required. --Slp1 (talk) 15:18, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

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