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Judge George W. Greer’s déjà vu
CFP ^ | March 23, 2005 | Judi McLeod

Posted on 03/24/2005 11:49:38 AM PST by MikeEdwards

When it comes to the protection of physically endangered women, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George W. Greer rates a zero.

Long before finding himself at the epicenter of the Terri Schiavo tempest, Greer was on the wrong kind of the headlines.

In 1998, Greer denied an injunction for a wife seeking protection from her husband.

In the paperwork presented, the august Greer noted that the woman had not listed any acts of violence by the man. The injunction was denied. Within days, the husband stabbed the woman to death.

The members of any women’s’ shelter would attest that sometimes desperation, sheer fear, haste and even ignorance of dealing with the system, keeps women from committing the salient facts to paper.

Greer said he followed the law. The woman’s co-workers protested outside the courthouse.

A fat lot of good a judge following the law did for the stabbed-to-death victim of domestic violence.

"As a judge, there’s always the fear that you’re going to miss something and somebody is going to get hurt," Greer said. "When you make those kind of decisions, there’s very little you can do to be 100 percent certain because you never have 100 percent of the facts." (St. Petersburg Times).

Even striving for 10 percent of the facts is a worthwhile endeavour if it means saving a life.

It was Greer who ignited controversy when he decided that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state and that her feeding tube should be removed. . . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...


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To: MikeEdwards

Amazing. Kills the first woman through carelessness. Not wanting to take that risk again, he buckles down and makes sure there is no way Terri escapes alive. And to top it all off - he's blind - so blind he doesn't dare drive. Has anyone even asked him whether he was able to READ the medical reports etc. that said Terri was not PVS? The fact that he may not even be able to READ evidence in Terri's favor, and STILL has sentenced her to death, is INSANE, and alone grounds for impeachment. If Terri were a mass murderer sentenced to die by a BLIND judge, she would WALK FREE.


21 posted on 03/24/2005 12:06:58 PM PST by RepublicanCentury
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To: willgolfforfood
Yes, he is elected and was elected by a large margin as recently as August 2004! We have no one to blame but ourselves, in this case Pinellas County voters, for the blight that is upon our land at the hands of the judiciary. I am so happy to be in the final portion of my life. I do not like what America has come to be in the 21st century and I frankly don't see it changing for the better. That is simply not the story history teaches. The fact that this man can be reelected in the midst of this controversy is proof positive that my concern for the country is real.
22 posted on 03/24/2005 12:08:15 PM PST by jwpjr
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To: MikeEdwards

Seen Greer on the golf course with OJ the other day.


23 posted on 03/24/2005 12:15:06 PM PST by crnhskr1
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To: MikeEdwards
What *TICKS* me off is that Michael Schiavo's claim that Terri wouldn't have *WANTED* to live this way is *HEARSAY*. Judge Greer knows it should have been *INADMISSIBLE*, but he allowed it anyway.

That proves he is an *ACTIVIST* judge.

I pray that Bush issues an *EXECUTIVE ORDER* to save Terri *SOON*. What the *HECK* is he waiting for??

24 posted on 03/24/2005 12:15:06 PM PST by Sir Valentino
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To: MikeEdwards

Greer said he followed the law. LOL!!!!!!!!!

Precious Heavenly Father - We are bombarding Heaven and not giving up - like that woman in Your Holy Word who kept badgering the Judge until she finally got her wish - Please save our little sister, Theresa Marie Schiavo, from out of the clutches of the evil ones who want to take her innocent life. In the Glorious Name of Jesus Christ, our Master. Amen.


25 posted on 03/24/2005 12:16:16 PM PST by Saundra Duffy ("Where there's life, there's hope." Theresa Marie Schiavo)
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To: ambrose
In the paperwork presented, the august Greer noted that the woman had not listed any acts of violence by the man. Okay... so judges are supposed to grant injunctions, without any factual basis provided to them? Just ask for one, and blam... granted?

You have to have a physical "acts of violence" and not accept someones word of a verbal threat to grant a temporary injunctions to have that person stay away from you

vs

accepting someone word even when there nothing in physical writing to grant permanent death to someone else?

26 posted on 03/24/2005 12:17:52 PM PST by tophat9000 (When the State ASSUMES death...It makes an ASH out of you and me)
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To: Red Badger
"I think he's on the take..."

I'm sticking with mental patient / dumpster.

27 posted on 03/24/2005 12:17:53 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Saundra Duffy

Judge Greer is as evil as people get.


28 posted on 03/24/2005 12:17:54 PM PST by tessalu ( A)
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To: My2Cents
She told them she would never want to be kept alive by machines. I hate to insert facts here, but it is a fact that a feeding tube is not a machine. -- Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle.
29 posted on 03/24/2005 12:18:00 PM PST by expatpat
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To: Sir Valentino
Even if it were true, it still doesn't qualify:

She told them she would never want to be kept alive by machines. I hate to insert facts here, but it is a fact that a feeding tube is not a machine. -- Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle.

30 posted on 03/24/2005 12:20:29 PM PST by expatpat
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To: Joe 6-pack

Could be both......


31 posted on 03/24/2005 12:21:22 PM PST by Red Badger (The South seceded over refusal to end slavery. Blue states want to secede for the same reason......)
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To: sinanju
What do you think judges need to know to do their jobs?

How long do you think it takes to learn these things?

32 posted on 03/24/2005 12:22:07 PM PST by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: RepublicanCentury

Legally blind. You know what Judge? I wouldn't want to live like that....


33 posted on 03/24/2005 12:54:43 PM PST by zygoat
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To: ambrose

Threats of violence are usually good enough, at least where I live.


34 posted on 03/24/2005 1:44:15 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: MikeEdwards
According to the St. Petersburg Times, in 2002 the judge offered to donate one of his kidneys to Ed Armstrong, a Clearwater lawyer and close friend. But Armstrong, who needed a transplant, found another donor.

Armstrong probably preferred to die than take a kidney from that cretin.

35 posted on 03/24/2005 1:44:35 PM PST by My2Cents (America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
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To: GaltMeister

For Judge Greer, every day is a bad hair day.

36 posted on 03/24/2005 1:46:19 PM PST by My2Cents (America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
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