Michael & Kathleen
Gentry
40266 Ronar St.
Palmdale, Calif. 93591
(661) 264-2362
email
contact information: lndsay@adelphia.net
12, July, 2004
To the American
Public and all interested people of this world:
The
reason for writing is to ask for your help. We are trying to get
our unjust conviction overturned.
What we need for you to do is
write a letter to the Governor and ask
that we be granted a pardon.
This letter could include a
description of some of what actually happened
to Lindsay, such as 10 weeks
premature birth, water on the
brain, lungs under developed, all muscles
flaccid, nine weeks of respirator
dependence, IV and tube feeding,
non- functioning liver requiring 2
complete blood exchanges,
dislocated hips, and severely
clubbed feet requiring seven surgeries
to partially correct, Congenital
Myotonic Muscular
Dystrophy/Steinert's disease. As she progressed she
had casts on her feet from
just after birth for more than a
year, various forms of braces continually
until she was almost five years old
then
other types of braces from time to time for the rest of her life.
She developed congenital cataracts in
both eyes at about age 5 and
started to learn Braille at age 8. At
age 13 she had surgery to remove the
cataracts so that she could see
with real thick (coke bottle bottom)
glasses. At age 15 she entered the
hospital to receive supplemental
feeding. When she entered she also
needed oxygen but did not receive
it for 6 days. While there, she
developed pneumonia, vomited, aspirated,
thus dying there on the 7th day
with no monitoring devices on
her to alert the nurses in time to help
her.
About
2 1/2 years after Lindsay died we were arrested and charged with
second degree murder, child abuse
and conspiracy to commit child abuse. The trial produced a
hung jury
and we were retried for involuntary
manslaughter, child abuse/endangerment and conspiracy to
commit child
abuse. At the 2nd trial,
second degree murder was reduced to involuntary manslaughter.
We were
convicted on all three charges
after 2 1/2 weeks of deliberation, during which the judge
kicked off
of the Jury the lady who was voting
not guilty. Mike got 6 years and Kathleen got 4 years prison,
both
released early (half time for good
behavior and work).
A lot of "legal?"
but dishonorable and dishonest things occurred to
achieve the conviction in the 2nd trial:
1)
Several witnesses of the prosecutor
were proven liars or damaging to her case. They were
not at the 2nd trial. Our case number
is #BA170869 of Los
Angeles County Superior Court.
2)
Pediatric Doctor, Astrid Hagar, a "world
renowned child abuse expert", almost shed tears and
used the term "sadly true" in place of "yes" when testifying.
Her best
lie was in trial 2, transcript
pages 2771 and 2772 "I have a friend with
6 children with
Myotonic Dystrophy, ..watched them all
grow up..become gymnasts, nurses..." When
questioned by the
defense: "Are you sure they had
Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy?" "Absolutely"
she replied. Another
lie others at transcript
pages 2731 and 2733 was "Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy is
less severe
than other Myotonic Dystrophy's."
3)
Two prosecution witnesses in the 2nd
trial reversed or altered their 1st trial
testimonies to
go along with other school employees. They 1st
said that
Lindsay was always hungry, famished and
wolfed down her food, ate so fast that she through up. In the
2nd
trial they said that Lindsay was slow,
picky and took up to 2 hours to finish a meal and turned down
desserts.
Who told them to say that in the
2nd trial?
4)
School Nurse Peggy Goecke testified at the
1sttrial that she saw what "looks like a match
bum on her back." In the 2nd trial it
changed to "looks
like several Cigarette burns." The truth was
that many of Lindsay's medical records refer to a haemangioma
on her
upper left back.
(haemangioma is medical-speak for a birth mark)
5)
School personal who's ineptitude can be demonstrated,
testified to Lindsay's being abused and
starved and were filers of 15 child abuse reports.
Prosecution presented
9 to the jury; what of the other 6.
6)
All Child Protective Services investigators
that came to the school then to our home wrote in their
reports that the charges (mentioned above) were "unfounded,
unsubstantiated
and that the teachers
seemed to be harassing the Gentry's." The Judge refused to
allow the
jury to see those reports.
Seven reports were so absurd - on the teachers part - that
the prosecutor
refused to use them.
Now, a few words from 2 neutral school employees: Lindsay's
Bus drivers
for the last six
years, Linda Kunkel & Gail Belbak: "...Lindsay
never, never,
never, ever got on the bus with
dirty, messed up hair, cloths, face, arms or legs."
They also
said they never ever saw any cuts or
bruises on Lindsay, or that she smelled anything but clean
and fresh.
For more on our side of the story, look on the internet at
http://www.kaiserpapers.org/lindsay.html.
From there, go to the article "Patients Requesting Help" on
the same web page.
The Governor's
address is:
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-445-4633 |
Los
Angeles Office
300 South Spring Street
Suite 16701
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: 213-897-0322
Fax: 213-897-0319 |
Fresno
Office
2550 Manposa Mall #30l3
Fresno, CA 93721
Phone: 559-445-5295
Fax: 559-445-5328 |
Riverside
Office
3737 Main Street #201
Riverside, CA 92501
Phone: 909-680-6860
Fax:909-680-6863 |
San
Diego Office
1350 Front Street
Suite 6054
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone:619-525-4641
Fax:619-525-4640
|
San
Francisco Office
455 Golden Gate Avenue
Suite 14000
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone:415-703-2218
Fax:415-703-2803 |
Washington
D.C. Office
134 Hall of the States
444 North Capitol Street NW
Washington D.C. 20001
Phone: 202-624-5270
Fax: 202-624-5280 |
If
you prefer to email the governor then please go
to the following web page and fill
out the form: http://www.govmail.ca.gov/ |
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Do
you know anyone with muscular dystrophy, or has handicapped people
in their life or are in the
Medical Profession that know how absurd our conviction is? We
would
appreciate letters by them too.
The more letters the governor receives, the more likely that
he will
take a look at our misfortune and correct it
Your help will be
greatly appreciated. If you have questions, please
call or write. Our address and phone
number is at the top. We would like to get a copy of the
letter you
send to the Governor for coordination purposes.
Thank You
Sincerely,
Michael
& Kathleen Gentry
lndsay@adelphia.net
horror.kaiserpapers.info