[Libloather]

He has a point. Well, he did, while dead. Now he doesn't.

[Grimmy]

Heh. He pissed himself. Literally.

[tallyhoe]

Hoe can you briefly die?

[Beagle8U]

I hate to say it but...I think he has a point. Unless he sentenced to multiple life sentences his term ended when he died.

[Billthedrill]

That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die.

The bad news is that yer cellmate is this guy named Cthulhu.

[VanShuyten]

From the article:

“Schreiber is either alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is dead, in which case this appeal is moot,” a judge ruled.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I remember reading about a guy in California that was sentenced to the Gas Chamber for murder. They carried out the sentence and he survived, not sure what they did then, let him go and changed his sentence to life.

[TigersEye]

He has a point. Well, he did, while dead. Now he doesn't.

He wasn't committed enough to the cause. :)

[Robert DeLong]

They should have not worked so hard to save his life. All would be better off if that had been the case.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Defining “death” as when your heart stops beating means we all die and come back to life every second of our lives.

[StAnDeliver]

Return him to the physical state he is complaining about, and then let him file the appeal.

[Political Junkie Too]

Does he have the same life signs as a partial birth abortion in Virginia?

Why decree that the former must live while the latter must die?

-PJ

[oldvirginian]

I can remember a man being sentenced to”Death and One Dark Day” when I was a kid here in Virginia.
That meant the convict had to die in prison and spend one day in the coroners cabinet.

IIRC it was a murder for hire thing that got him that sentence.
The man who paid for his wife’s murder got the chair.

[adorno]

Does a life sentence end if you briefly die?

There's an idea for men (or women) stuck in a bad marriage. Briefly die and the marriage vows are no longer valid. "Till death do us part", would have to be changed to, "till rigor-mortis" has been ongoing for a week or more.

[Rastus]

The judge is a badass, even if she does appear to be a Democrat:

“The court finds this assertion unpersuasive and without merit,” wrote Judge Amanda Potterfield in the court of appeals opinion. “Nothing in the record supports petitioner’s claims. The petitioner’s filing of these proceedings in itself confirms the petitioner's current status as living.”

Potterfield added that there were “no conceivable state of facts” to support Schreiber’s claim, noting the 66-year-old didn’t cite any previous case law in his appeal.

"Schreiber is either alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is dead, in which case this appeal is moot,” Potterfield added. “We conclude [the law] requires Schreiber to stay in prison for the rest of his natural life, regardless of whether he was resuscitated against his wishes in 2015.”

[MortMan]

If momentarily dying means a life sentence is over, wouldn’t the sentence include an automatic do not revive order?