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Prison Papers #2: Two letters to Alonzo Coleman ~~retired judge of the District Court of Orange County~~ | Sent from Southern Correctional Institution, Montgomery County, NC | summer 2022
28 July 2022 Dear Mr. Coleman, I hope this note finds you well. Though I remain “in custody” for another few weeks, I am in high spirits, and am happy to report to you, your son, and your partners that I’m in excellent physical and mental health. I just finished a 22-page letter to the…
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On the International Human Rights Emergency in North Carolina: Letter to Sky Walker (14 November 2024)
14 November 2024 Dear Sky, In my “house arrest resistance struggle” here at my permanent residence on the 500 block of Orange Street, I often wonder whether I will ever get to see you again. THe forces which subjugate and manipulate womanhood in North Carolina are pernicious, so twisted, so completely against “the Law”, that…
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Protected: Jail Papers #12: 6 letters to Professor Beth Posner, Clinical Programs, UNC School of Law (sent from Orange County Detention Center, August – October 2023)
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Brady Variations #1: “Motion to Compel the Production of Exculpatory Evidence, Records & Papers” (State of N.C. v. William Dawson Gage, New Hanover County”)
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEW HANVOER IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA ) VS. ) WILLIAM DAWSON GAGE ) MOTION TO COMPEL THE ) PRODUCTION OF EXCULPATORY ) EVIDENCE, RECORDS & PAPERS THE ACCUSED, by and through his undersigned attorney, pursuant to the Due Process Clause…
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Jail Papers #11: Letter to Rufus Edmisten on “Dawson Gage for Governor” (sent from Orange County Detention Center, 7 December 2023)
“7 December 2023 / With this document executed in my own hand, I, Dawson Gage, citizen of North Carolina, registered to vote at 513 Orange Street, Wilmington, in the County of New Hanover, affiliated with the North Carolina Democratic Party, do hereby authorize and empower my friend Rufus Edmisten to file my candidacy for the…
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Jail Papers #10: Letter to Jan Kennedy, Clerk of Superior Court for New Hanover County (sent from Orange County Detention Center, 24 October 2023)
24 October 2023 Dear Ms. Kennedy, / I hope this note finds you well, and that you have found the time to take some official notice of the papers/process I have sent via U.S. Mail to the judges of the District Court. / One thing I have learned during the years of my adventures at…
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Jail Papers #9: NCGS 132 Public Records Request for District Attorney Ben David concerning “the WHQR Conspiracy” (sent from Orange County Detention Center, 26 November 2023)
“I’m with you in Rockland / where your condition is getting serious and is reported on the radio.” Allen Ginsberg, “HowL” “ATTN: District Attorney Benjamin David, assistants, staff. SUBJECT: Request for Public Records. ===== Pursuant to NCGS 132, requesting party William Dawson Gage specifies all email and SMS text message communications between the office of…
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Jail Papers #8: Letter to Julius Corpening, Chief District Court Judge for NC Judicial #6 (sent from Orange County Detention Center, 23 October 2023)
23 October 2023 Dear Judge Corpening, Enclosed in the accompanying manila envelope are an additional 16 “Rule 33 Interrogatories” for plaintiff Mr. Carter, as well as a “Motion to Compel”. While it is out of my hands as to precisely how these papers are to be served and filed, for my part my wish is…
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Jail Papers #7: “Motion In Limine” in “State of North Carolina v William Dawson Gage” (Composed in Orange County Detention Center, March 2023)
STATE of NORTH CAROLINA in the GENERAL COURT of JUSTICE COUNTY of ORANGE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION STATE of NORTH CAROLINA MOTION IN LIMINE [plaintiff] v. WILLIAM DAWSON GAGE defendant In the several related matters in the jurisdiction so-named and so-given above, NOW COMES the defendant William Dawson Gage, by and through…
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Protected: Letter to attorney Sara Margolis
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Protected: Two “Requests for Public Records” (NCGS 132) for Rebecca Zimmer Donaldson & the Office of the District Attorney, NC Prosecutorial #6 | (9 September 2024)
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“…[b]ut you can’t take North Carolina law out of the boy” | (Letter to Meredith Smith, professor at UNC School of Government, 12 September 2024)
Dear Professor Smith, My name is Dawson Gage, and I am a poet & journalist, and I would like to introduce myself with an anecdote. In the fall of 2020, leading up to the election of that year, I cut off a GPS ankle monitor imposed by the Department of Public Safety and proceeded to…
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Letter to Assistant District Attorney Alexandria Palombo on “the District Attorney succession crisis” (2 September 2024)
Dear Ms. Palombo, I wanted to apologize for the freewheeling voicemails I left your assistant Quanda sometime early Sunday morning. I’m not sorry for having left them, but for not finishing what I started there, and for not being as coherent as I would like. I was very tired and very uneasy all weekend because…
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“Text message letter” to James Rainsford, attorney in Hillsborough, NC (sent from “house arrest”, 5 September 2024)
Hey James I hope all is well. I just sent you an email that you might want to read. I write from yet another house-arrest, but I would like to talk to you about the “situation with the DA’s office in Wilmington”. This time ten years ago I was in the middle of my “special…
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2 Letters to Assistant District Attorney Hannah McGee (mid-August 2024)
(12 August 2024) Dear Ms. McGee, As you know, two of my cell phones remain in the custody of the Wilmington Police Department, and I write to request that you authorize them to return my property as soon as possible. They claimed to have been “done” with their “imaging” of the phones, and have…
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Protected: “Hillsborough Freestyle Judicial Letter: In Reply to Beth Posner’s ‘Draft Order’ “| (11 February 2024)
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Protected: Prison Papers #1: Letter to Superior Court Judge Richard Baddour (sent from Southern Correctional Institution, August 2022)
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Jail Papers #6: “Motion to Compel” in “Carter v. Gage” (New Hanover County) | composed and sent from Orange County Detention Center to New Hanover County Courthouse, October 2023
STATE of NORTH CAROLINA / in the GENERAL COURT of JUSTICE COUNTY of NEW HANOVER DISTRICT COURT DIVISION OLIVER CARTER III plaintiff v. WILLIAM DAWSON GAGE defendant ========= MOTION to COMPEL (N.C.R.C.P. Rule 37(a)(2)) HERE NOW comes the defendant, William Dawson Gage, by and through his counsel Mr. Thomas Goolsby, and otherwise…
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Protected: Jail Papers #5: Letters from Dawson Gage to District Attorney Jeff Nieman & ADA Kelley Gauger (Sent from Orange County Detention Center, March to September 2023, with 2x NCGS 132 Public Records Requests)
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Protected: Dawson’s “Requests for Public Records” to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (submitted online 14 February 2024)
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Protected: Jail Papers #4: “Ross v. Gage Interrogatories” (per NC Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 33)
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Jail Papers #3: “NCGS 132 “Public Records Request” for NC Attorney Joshua Stein | (Sent from Orange County Detention Center, 7 October 2023)
The following is a transcribed version of a “public records request” and accompanying letter to Attorney General Josh Stein, composed at the Orange County Detention Center in Hillsborough, NC. WILLIAM GAGE 10/7/2023 21:30 “7 October 2023 / Dear Mr. Stein, /Enclosed is an NCGS 132 Public Records Request. Since you are so keen on invoking…
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Protected: Jail Papers #2: “Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus & Inquiry into Restraint on Liberty (composed 6-9 May 2023 @ Orange County Detention Center)
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Jail Papers #1: “Letter from Dawson Gage to Superior Court Judge Richard Baddour” (sent from Orange County Detention Center, January 2023)
The following letters were authored by Dawson Gage in cell F-8 of the Orange County Detention Center in Hillsborough, NC. They were sent via US Mail to “Honorable Richard Baddour, Resident Superior Court Judge, c/o Orange County Courthouse, 106 East Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC 27278”, and were conveyed to Dawson’s defense attorneys Samuel Coleman and…