The 11th Circuit Court has denied the appeal. I imagine this will go to the Supreme Court now.
I'm all for hearsay evidence in Probate court. I clearly remember all of you saying you'd want Florida Cracker to have your worldly goods when you should die.
Michelle Malkin has more.
UPDATE:
The Schindlers are not appealing to the Supremes after all, but instead are asking for some sort of review. At this point I'm getting confused. [Lawyer Carl in Atlanta, do you understand this part?]
Meanwhile, Governor Bush is tearing his hair out trying to get Terri some help.
Some think that Jeb can pull a rabbit out of his hat right about now, but I'm not so sure.
Kudos to Florida Senator Daniel Webster. He doesn't give up. I think he's picturing his own brain-damaged son in this situation.
UPDATE:
The 11th Circuit Court says not no, but hell no.
They're working pretty frantically in T-town. Hopefully, something will be accomplished before the girl drops dead.
I'm kind of embarrassed about that whole giving to the tsunami victims thing. If I had known how painless death by dehydration and starvation was, I could have used the dough to get my car detailed instead. It's definitely the best way to die. Except for maybe freezing to death- that might be better.
In any case, I don't know what I was thinking keeping Indonesian kids from peacefully going off to heaven.
Hey, Bob Geldof- pull the other one.
UPDATE II:
Hyscience has word on breaking news that Governor Bush has the Department of Children and Families investigating abuse of Terri.
I pray they take her into protective custody.
Governor Jeb for sure wants to go and bust down the door himself. That man does not play.
UPDATE III:
From the Governor's press conference announcing new evidence that Terri is not in a PVS:
"I'm to make sure that Terri is afforded at least the same rights that criminals convicted of the most heinous crimes take for granted," Bush said. "If a prisoner comes forward with new DNA evidence 20 years after his conviction suggesting his innocence, there is no doubt that the courts, in our state or all across the country for that matter, would immediately review his case. We should do no less for Terri Schiavo."
Meanwhile, the Florida Senate turned back the efforts to help Terri there.
UPDATE IV:
Governor Bush is indeed moving to take Terri into protective custody.
I don't drink alcohol, but I might could use a shot of some right about now.
All of this stuff is heading back to Greer, I do believe.
Yup, I remember it well too. My fee is 25%!
Posted by: MaxedOutMama at March 23, 2005 10:10 AMI don't remember saying that, but you clearly have only my best interest at heart. After all, you said so.
Posted by: John from WuzzaDem at March 23, 2005 12:35 PMWhat an utterly horrible condition to be in. We should be exhausting all means to rehab her instead of trying to kill her. And what of her husband! Geeze she just had the cards stacked against here. It is very evident that after Terri spent two years in her “broken” state of consciousness that here husband was ready to “dispose” of her. He had grown tired of his vows of “for better or worse” and was plotting to engage the “untill death do us part” clause of the contract.
Posted by: Freaki at March 23, 2005 02:31 PMHAS THERE BEEN ANY FURTHER UPDATES ON TERRI AT THIS POINT? WHETHER JEB BUSH HAS ISSUED AN ABUSE CASE ON HER OR ARE THERE IN UPDATES ON HER CONDITION?
Posted by: ANGELA at March 23, 2005 05:28 PMHey Donnah. Sorry I missed your question about en banc review. Out all day (and almost missed Duane, too). As lawyers sometimes say, its a moot point now.
Two questions:
1. What do you make of these nurses that Fox has been interviewing? I heard Sean Hannity on the radio interviewing a second one who coroborated the one that Fox and Friends had on this morning ( or was it yesterday?) and the two nurses didn't even know each other? Wow. Why hasn't this come out before?
2. Why is this so political?
You know, those nurses spend more time with patients than anybody. As far as I can tell, the courts never take the nurses into account. They didn't with Nancy Cruzan's nurses.
I guess it's political because the issue is sitting right on a fault line.
Posted by: Donnah at March 23, 2005 08:19 PMThe nurses are legit.
Their testimony was entered several trials ago if I recall. But hey, their just nurses, what do they know? Right?
Therefore their affadavits were given just about zero weight.
Dr. Death says theywere just witnessing "reflexes" when they slipped Terri the pudding...
I'm much more interested in getting to the bottom of the mystery file of 700 pages detailing 31 complaints filed with DCF, that when asked DCF claimed did not exist. Apparently the man that filed the first charge obtained and copied the file before it "disappeared". I heard a rumor that someone from Jebs office had contacted the man either last night or today....I hope it's not some cruel hoax.
If there is such a file, and Michael was awarded guardianship when the court was told there were no complaints on file against him, I would count that as a violation of her constitutional rights having been violated. (a fair trial)
Waiting in Pinellas County, FL
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