I don't know about most jurisdictions, but I would hope the following rules apply everywhere. I would also hope that they would be upheld.
Michael Schiavo has announced plans to have Terri's body cremated immediately upon her death. The Medical Examiner has the authority to order an autopsy if foul play is suspected. If he waits until after her body has been cremated, it will obviously be too late. Contact him now.
http://www.co.pinellas.fl.us/forensics/
From the website:
District Six Medical Examiner's Office
10900 Ulmerton Rd., Largo FL 33778
Telephone #. (727) 582-6800
Fax # (727) 582-6820
Jon R. Thogmartin, M.D., District Chief Medical Examiner
Support Staff:
Noel Palma, M.D., Deputy Chief Medical Examiner
Susan Ignacio, M.D., Associate Medical Examiner
Chris Wilson, M.D., Associate Medical Examiner
Daniel Schultz, M.D., Associate Medical Examiner
William A. Pellan, Director of Investigations
Reta Newman, M.A., Director of PCFL
Office Hours: The office is open seven days a week, excluding holidays, from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm. After hours and on observed holidays, all phone calls are directed to an answering service.
I have heard of any public Official from dog catcher to leglislator come out against Michael on this matter.
That tells me that they support what he is doing.
It is my opinion that Michael has just committed the perfect murder. Better than that, he had had the State do his dirty work.
But I still maintain that the real issue in this case was, could the court[s]order an individual that has never been convicted of a crime put to death and get away with it. Soon, history will tell us that they can and did.
And they succeeded beyon their wildest expectations. Not only did they succeed in having an innocent person tortured to death, they were cheered on rabidly by[according to the main stream media polls] by a large segment of the population of the United States.
Another thing that warmed their cockles was that those of us that tried to prevent this were thoruhhly demonized and with a little tweaking by the mainstream media, this demonization will be turned unto rabid hatered.
In short, we have became the good Germans of the '30s. Upon command from the State we will cheerfully turn over to the State our "Jews". Our "Jews" will be whoever the State decides is its next enemy. The infirm, the crippled, the disabled, the old, those unable to work any longer.....
Eventually even those who are foaming at the mouth with glee that this is happening will fit into a category to be exterminated. Only it won't be as funny to them then as it is now.