4-B THE PLAIN DEALER, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1993 Stokes says correction too small, wants reprint By JAMES F. McCARTY PLAIN DEALER REPORTER CLEVELAND A printed correction and a check for $100,000 helped to settle a $6.5 million libel suit last year but has. failed to satisfy Cleveland Municipal Judge Carl B. Stokes. Stokes returned to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court yesterseeking to extract a more meaningful apology from a Cleveland policeman and a Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association publication for implying the judge was a criminative case was scheduled for trial in September, but an agreement was worked out between the union and Stokes that called for a $100,000 payment to Stokes and a published cor: rection.
But Stokes said he thought the tiny correction nestled on the bottom of the last page of the December issue of the union's publication, Behind the Badge, was no more than a footnote. "I was appalled by it," Stokes testified at a hearing yesterday. "It's min- Family faces By JOHN F. HAGAN PLAIN DEALER REPORTER CLEVELAND "Hey, watch this," Kiana Blakey told friends Jan. 31, as she placed a handgun to her head.
She was in good spirits. It was Super Bowl Sunday, about a half-hour before her 16th birthday. But the festive atmosphere turned tragic when she squeezed the trigger, not knowing the gun was loaded, and fired a bullet into her head. Kiana was taken to St. Vincent Charity Hospital and Health Center.
She suffered severe brain damage and a non-survivable wound. She died Feb 3. The Cuyahoga County. coroner has preliminarily ruled the death accidental. 7 The Cleveland homicide unit is still investigating, according to a police spokeswoman.
uscule, an affront in itself. I searched assiduously and long to find it, and easy." Stokes asked Judge Daniel O. Corrigan to order the union to reprint the correction in larger type and in a more prominent position and to penalize the union officers and their lawyers with a contempt-of-court citation. Corrigan delayed his decision until defense lawyers submit their version of the settlement's provisions. The correction read, in part: "We want to publicly attest to the fact that Judge.
Carl Stokes is not a criminal and we were in error use words which were construed to imply that he Stokes said he was disturbed by several changes in the wording of the agreed-upon correction. The correction that ran deleted a phrase that Stokes was called a criminal "in our article." Stokes also was upset by deletion of his middle initial the deletion of the year the article ran and an attribution of the correction to "the editorial staff" of Behind the Badge. The blame should have been put on the paper's "editorial board," he said. cost of Kiana's friends and relatives had come to Kiana's sister's home on Longwood Ave. in the Longwood Estates.
They were decorating the apartment when the accident occurred, said her father, Arthur Blakey. He said one of the friends brought the gun to the party. Blakey, who works in the physical therapy department at the Carnegie Care Center, 8800 Carnegie is trying to get enough money to pay for hospital and funeral costs. Kiana, of E. 86th will be buried today after a 1 p.m.
service at the William A. Gaines funeral home, 9116 Union Ave. A fund has been established at the Star Bank branch St. and Union Ave. to help with the funeral costs.
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$1.49 a minute You must be 18 years of age or older. Charges will appear on your phone bill. The union's lawyer, Patrick A. D'Angelo, the complaints "inane matters." argued that type and location of the correction were never issues, and the wording the correction was true to the orig. agreement.
Bob Beck, CPPA president, and John Kincaid, the union's first vice president, conceded editorials in Behind the Badge that the apology "hollow" and "insincere." The 1990 editorial that launched libel suit was penned by Patrolman Joe Lewandowski. He was critof Stokes for finding a man not guilty of menacing the wife of Police Chief Edward P. Kovacic. Lewandowcharacterized Stokes as a "crimiapparently referring to two shoplifting accusations against the judge. 1989, Stokes agreed to pay $50 restitution to a Bedford store after officials said he left the busiwithout paying for a $2.39 screwdriver.
Later that year, a jury in Shaker Heights Municipal Court found Stokes not guilty of stealing a $17.25 of dog food from a pet store. burial Kiana was a ninth-grader at East High School, 1349 E. 79th The school's principal, Mary J. Stokes, students had collected about and would present it to the famor contribute it to the funeral fund. "Kiana was a quiet girl," Stokes said.
"She put a lot of effort her schoolwork. I talked to her teachers they said she was always with a and never gave anyone any trouble." The school honored her with a moment of silence the day she died. Blakey, who is separated from the girl's mother, Mary Blakey, said his daughter is survived by 13 sisters and brothers. He said he would try to take care the funeral expenses first and then worry about the hospital bill. "One thing at a time," he said.
"We'll this out of the way, and the Good Lord will help with the rest." CHAN Dreaming of midsummer days There are only so many games that owners and their dogs can play indoors during the uninviting days of midwinter. So when the weather took a turn for the warmer yesterday, Timothy Scott of Cleveland and his springer spaniel, Austin, headed for some open spaces to work off their cabin fever. Their field of choice: Wade Oval, across from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Widow final EKG that warned of possible heart damage or a heart attack. Pietrzak first came to the immediate care portion of the Mentor Mednet clinic the evening of Sept.
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Sponsors are not responsible for accident of injury. Your signature here indicates your understanding of this condition. 4-4 1 added that he'd had a pinched nerve in his left shoulder about a year earlier. His blood pressure and other vi- tal signs were normal. Franklin-Nash ordered a blood test and an EKG.
A computer analysis described Pietrzak's EKG as. "borderline." Franklin-Nash later said the test result was "within normal variations." After seeing the test results and noting the computer's assessment, Franklin-Nash diagnosed Pietrzak's problem as bone or muscle pain. She prescribed Advil and told him he should come back the next day. When Pietrzak returned, he saw Kosnosky, and repeated his earlier complaint of arm pain. Kosnosky didn't have the EKG that FranklinNash had ordered the day before.
He wrote in his medical notes that Pietrzak said the earlier test was negative. Kosnosky ordered his own EKG and noted on the printout that the result was "normal." He did a physical exam, recommended that Pietrzak undergo a complete physical, pre-: scribed more Advil and let him go. Pietrzak came back the third final time on the night of Oct. 7, and again saw Franklin-Nash. He said the Advil didn't seem to be enough to ease the arm and shoulder pain which was keeping him from sleeping.
Franklin-Nash had the EKG that she'd run during Pietrzak's first visit, but she didn't have the EKG Kosnosky had ordered. Pietrzak told her the results of that test were "OK," and mentioned that he had an appointment with a neurologist the next day. Routes The two routes were targeted because of low ridership and because they make no stops between Lake County and downtown Cleveland, RTA officials say. The operations cost for the two buses is $641,000 a year, while cur-. rent fares generate $225,000 annu-.
ally, according to RTA figures. Riders were pleased by yesterday's announcement. Joan DeLisi of Eastlake, who rides the 43-F downtown daily and was a leader of the rider protest against the proposed cuts, said the decision was a good one. "This just shows what you can do when pepole organize," said DeLisi, Franklin-Nash ordered another EKG. This time the computer described the EKG as "abnormal" and "consistent with epicardial (heart muscle) injury." Franklin-Nash later said the computer is "frequently wrong," and that without seeing the Sept.
25 EKG that Kosnosky had run, there was "no acute change" between the Sept. 24 and Oct. 7 EKGs she'd ordered. She prescribed Naprosyn and Tylenol 3, two stronger painkillers, and released Pietrzak. Six hours later, he was dead.
An autopsy found that some of the arteries that supplied his heart muscle with blood were clogged, and that he died of cardiac arrest. Dr. Donavin A. Baumgartner a MetroHealth St. Luke's Medical Center emergency medicine specialist who the defense planned to call as an expert witness, said Pietrzak's symptoms and EKGs weren't an obvious indication of a heart problem.
"In retrospect I see no failure to fully evaluate the patient and find no evidence whatsoever of a failure to meet accepted standards of medical care," he said. But plaintiff's expert Dr. Steven G. Meister, chief of the Medical College of Pennsylvania's cardiology division, said Pietrzak's arm pain, coupled with the "dramatic" differences between the three EKGs, were clear signs of a heart problem that needed immediate hospital care. "In this instance, I cannot avoid the conclusion that opportunities to prevent this tragic occurence were lost because of multiple failures to conform to rou'tine standards of care," he said.
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