Posted on 03/24/2005 12:01:26 AM PST by prisoner6
Please forgive the vanity, however I have a couple of questions about the Terri Shiavo situation.
FWIW I am praying for Terri and hoping for a miracle. As the hours pass it doesn't look good. In the meantime I've been going over documents, paying attention to reports and a couple of things have struck me as rather odd.
The first is really bothering me. Here's an excerpt from the Media Matters website - "CNN, Fox featured ex-Schiavo nurse whose affidavit was dismissed as "incredible" by judge"
url http://mediamatters.org/items/200503230001
according to Greer's September 2003 order, Schiavo's parents had not subpoenaed Iyer to testify.
Apparently this is correct. Why weren't the caregivers whose affidavits seem to be so important NOT SUBPOENED BY TERRI'S PARENTS?! How could they NOT? Maybe it's obvious and I'm clouded by my passion for the case, but I would really like a rational explanation for this.
The second, and probably least relevant is an interview that was supposed to take place on the Glenn Beck program with Dr Hammesfahr. From the onset he sounded a little chakey at best. Only a short way into the interview he and glenn came to an impass. Glenn asked him to discuss what was in his report and he refused. He refused to give highlights. Instead he wanted to give a location - possibly a website, maybe terrisfight.org, he didn't say - where people could read the entire report.
Glenn got ticked, sensed that the doc was promoting himself or something. He offered the doc a couple of outs like he was afraid of lawsuits and the doc took them. Just repeated what Glenn said.
Glenn abrutly ended the interview and apologized to the audience. Said that he and his producers sensed something funny about the doc and when he wouldn;'t co-operate they decided he wasn't sincere or credible. I have to agree, he sounded bad.
Can someone please explain this to me? Since the report IS posted on the web several places, why would he refuse to discuss it on a talk show?
Thanks for the help and winking at the vanity.
prisoner6
The full deposition that was indeed given in the presence of lawyers on both sides is here.
Of note is that Walker gets a bit shaky and less sure under cross examination. When asked about conflicting observations made by others he can't answer.
(Still another who was questioned about Walker's findings pointed out that it's not unusal for a person to have some trauma, especially in the rib or back area, from the application of CPR which was administered to Terri.)
http://www.hospicepatients.org/dr-walker-t-schiavo-bone-scan-deposition.txt
No. This was per Sean Hannity, who is outside Woodside and talked to the nurses and our Freepers who are there. I know Hannity talked to Nora on air. Don't know about the other 2.
This is from an interview with Carla Iyer. When these nurses started coming forward, it was important to Schiavos case that they be discredited.
“We were very intimidated … the whole place,” Iyer revealed, adding that some nurses had a restraining order against Michael Schiavo because his “behavior was so bad.”
snip
She filed a police report but heard nothing further regarding the incident. Subsequently she received death threats she believes were related to notifying the authorities and was later released from her position as a caregiver because of her actions in support of Terri.
The interview is here
You might also be interested in this.
FDLE Agent Implicates McCabe in Halting Schiavo Probe; New Evidence, Subpoena Could Save Terri
Terri Schiavo’s life could be saved by a piece of paper.
A simple subpoena.
When a top ranking agent of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) opened a criminal investigation in the case of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, he was called into his supervisor’s office and told to shut down the investigation not once, but twice.
This link is posted with the TEJs permission.
Actually The Empire JOurnal did a recent story on this using the affidavits of the three nurses, the GAL report of Pearse, and affidavits of the doctors. I don't remember the title of it but if you go to www.theempirejournal.com, it's probably in the Schiavo archive. I'm sure the link is posted on the Terri thread for March but I just dont remember the date. We've been doing 3 and 4 articles a day on the case
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