For Judge Greer, every day is a bad hair day.
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 ...
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.
Seen Greer on the golf course with OJ the other day.
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??
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.
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?
I'm sticking with mental patient / dumpster.
Judge Greer is as evil as people get.
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.
Could be both......
How long do you think it takes to learn these things?
Legally blind. You know what Judge? I wouldn't want to live like that....
Threats of violence are usually good enough, at least where I live.
Armstrong probably preferred to die than take a kidney from that cretin.
For Judge Greer, every day is a bad hair day.
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