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This article is a mess

A cursory read of this article shows it is poorly written, and contains blatant plagiarism/copyvio. See for instance:

The article -- "In 1985, Peterson was fired from the Bolingbrook Police Department after the village board of police and fire commissioners found him guilty of disobedience, conducting a self-assigned investigation, failure to report a bribe immediately, and official misconduct. He had been indicted two months earlier on charges of official misconduct and failure to report a bribe. Peterson was working under the auspices of the Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad at the time. Indictments alleged he solicited drugs in exchange for information about his agency. The charges later were dropped. Special prosecutor Raymond Bolden said at the time the charges were not provable. Peterson won reinstatement with the department in March 1986. Judge Edwin Grabiec ruled police and fire commissioners lacked sufficient evidence to find Peterson guilty of the charges."

The source/s -- "Drew Peterson was fired from the Bolingbrook Police Department after the village board of police and fire commissioners found him guilty of disobedience, conducting a self-assigned investigation, failure to report a bribe immediately and official misconduct. He had been indicted two months earlier on charges of official misconduct and failure to report a bribe. Peterson was working under the auspices of the Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad at the time. Indictments alleged he solicited drugs in exchange for information about his agency. The charges later were dropped. Special prosecutor Raymond Bolden said at the time the charges were not provable. Drew Peterson won reinstatement with the department in March 1986. Judge Edwin Grabiec ruled police and fire commissioners lacked sufficient evidence to find Peterson guilty of the charges." User talk:Moriori (talk) 23:37, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's a horrible mess. Who's going to fix it? Your guess is as good as mine, and thanks for finding the blatant copyvio. It's now gone per WP:COPYVIO, as we don't allow that sort of thing. Time to start over. Doc talk 06:17, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Needs clearer writing

The last phrase of this sentence from the article is unparsable:

On February 21, 2008, Glasgow announced that a pathologist determined that Savio's death was a homicide,[18] adding that the death had been investigated as such reopening the case following the exhumation.

I made a small edit that makes the sentence make sense. It's still a slightly toothy sentence, but it is "parsable" now. – JBarta (talk) 08:21, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

claiming wrongful conviction

Hi Christopherakers. You have edited this article and the Scott Peterson article (twice) in the same way by adding "claiming wrongful conviction" after "He maintains his innocence". Your explanation in the edit summary is a little confusing to me so I'm still not sure why you would want to add it. It seems to me that anyone maintaining their innocence also considers himself wrongly convicted. You'd have to explain why that's not redundant... along the lines of "Johnny maintains he was right, claiming he was not wrong." – JBarta (talk) 08:00, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jbarta, i concede to your explanation. I had noticed attempts by others to expand the sentence which were later rejected, and so i attempted to expand clarity in a simple way to avoid any future absurd amendments. But the sentence seems best left as is. It was me who added 'He maintains his innocence' before i became a registered user. Best regards, Chris. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Christopherakers (talk • contribs) 04:09, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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