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Posted on 02/08/2007 12:39:03 PM PST by kcvl
Anna Nicole Smith collapsed in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Cafe and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., and was rushed to a hospital on Thursday. A Hollywood, Fla., fire department spokesman told MSNBC TV that the actress was unresponsive when the rescue unit arrived on the scene.
Sources confirmed to Access Hollywood that Smith was transported to Memorial Regional Hospital shortly after 2 p.m. EST on Thursday. Access Hollywood also is reporting that Smith was intubated at the scene.
Officials told the Miami Herald, "it does not look good."
That right there ought to be grounds for appeal.
Judge SleeveHeart gave Barth all the time in the world, hours, to question, harangue and badger the witnesses, yet he cut off "Texas" and Opri every chance he got. Regardless of his promises to "give you lots of leeway" or plenty of time, he kept cutting them off.
At one point he gave Opri "five minutes" but cut into three of that with his own soliloquies, leaving her barely enough time to ask one or two questions out of multiple pages of notes she had in front of her. When Opri said she would just question the witness (Larry, I think) after lunch, the judge said, "No, you'll do it now" and gave her mere seconds before he stopped the questioning. It was ridiculous how he obviously favored Stern's side over Birkhead and Virgie. The lawyers didn't get to question the witnesses; he did it himself. It was an appalling example of judicial misconduct, IMHO.
For the appellate court to have to limit themselves to Seidlin's courtroom shenanigans handicaps the "good guys" greatly.
ANS and HKS sure know quite a few people in the Miami area. What are the chances that some of them know the lawyers or those making decisions on a social basis?
That's where this thing goes wrong.
Howard is the "assumed" father, the "assumed husband, the "assumed" executor. And the guardian ad litem is the "assumed" voice of the child.
It's a farce because ALL knew she wanted to be buried in CA next to Marilyn Monroe...i.e, in the USA.
Virgie is the only "whole person" here...of legal age and the next legal kin with an unassumed voice.
Roberta G. Mandel, attorney for Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith, arrives at the 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007. A three-judge panel will hear oral argument on the petition filed by Arthur to let her bury her daughter in Texas. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
The only reason I have not reported you two to the moderator is because you are integral to this thread.
Unless you can document that fire-ants should be of consideration in the burial deliberations -i.e. that they exist in Texas and not in the Bahamas - ergo speculative and prejudicial showing anti-fireant bias - please dispense with this discourse forthwith;)
So she was having trouble breathing and nobody noticed???
Plus the whole video was probably written produced and directed by the Stern and ET! corporation. Making those accusations when you know there won't be time in court to prove or disprove them is, well, convenient for Stern eh?
Another little piece of evidence of premeditation...
Odd, I thought the person with HKS at the boat said he got a call around 1:15 or so? I may be wrong about that..
I don't think all the toxicology reports are back yet, they think her prescriptions may have contributed to her death.
Just checked the View out, and ALL the women are picking on the blonde Republican girl because she's telling them about ALGORE's high electric bill. She's outnumbered on everything.
LOL
Appeals court judges doubt mother's plans for Smith burial
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The Associated Press
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
WEST PALM BEACH — Three appeals court judges expressed doubts today about burying Anna Nicole Smith in Texas as her estranged mother wants, but also questioned how the advocate in charge of funeral plans knew Smith intended to be laid to rest in the Bahamas.
The 4th District Court of Appeal ended the hearing without indicating when it would rule, but two judges said Smith's purchase of burial plots in the Bahamas showed her desire to be brought there.
"Why wouldn't that be written evidence?" Judge Mark Polen asked the attorney for Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur.
Arthur has challenged a circuit judge's decision last week to give control of the remains to the court-appointed advocate for Smith's daughter, Dannielynn. Arthur's lawyer, Roberta Mandel, told the appeals court that the mother is the legal next of kin, since Dannielynn is underage.
The advocate, lawyer Richard Milstein, has doubted that, saying Florida law clearly gives the baby girl the right to decide.
Appeals Judge Barry Stone asked Milstein's attorney, Christopher Carver, how his client could ever figure out what a 5-month-old child wanted.
"You would need a crystal ball," Stone said.
But Carver said Milstein considered Smith's wishes to be buried in the Bahamas next to her 20-year-old son Daniel, who died last year.
"Anna Nicole Smith buried the person she loved most of all in the Bahamas," Carver said.
Carver said if the court rules against Arthur, Smith's funeral would take place Friday in the Bahamas. But Mandel has said she would take the case to the state Supreme Court.
Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, also wants her to be brought to the Bahamas. His lawyers say Arthur is trying to "place her in death where she never wanted to be in life."
Arthur and Stern were in court today. Stern appeared incredulous at Mandel's remarks doubting that Smith was a legal resident of the Bahamas.
Smith, 39, died in a Florida hotel Feb. 8, but her body has remained at a medical examiner's office because of the dispute.
Dannielynn is living in a gated, waterfront home in the Bahamas, where a judge is hearing the child custody dispute between Arthur and Stern, who is listed as her father on the birth certificate. On Tuesday, Arthur saw the little girl for the first time and left the home in tears.
Besides Stern, two other men claim to be the father.
Another Florida judge was expected to rule today on a request for DNA. Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend, wants the Fort Lauderdale court to enforce a California judge's orders so he can get DNA samples from Smith's body and the baby.
A medical examiner has yet to determine Smith's cause of death. Toxicology results could take up to two more weeks.
Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. The reality TV star and Playboy Playmate had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995, and her baby daughter could inherit millions.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/02/28/0228anna.html
LOL
The other medications *could* mask the symptoms of pneumonia according to the Enquirer article on Drudge.
A medical examiner has yet to determine Smith's cause of death. Toxicology results could take up to two more weeks.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/02/28/0228anna.html
Just posting what Drudge has on his website.
I don't think all the toxicology reports are back yet, they think her prescriptions may have contributed to her death by masking her symptoms.
That toxicology info on Anna needs to come out ASAP so all these uninformed judges will get a clue as to what she and Howard were up to.
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