[atomicpossum]

Terri is not considered a criminal. There is no crime being investigated.

She, essentially, is being treated as property, and is being (mis)handled by a county probate judge.

[expatguy]

Can President Bush do something?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1371677/posts

[Critter]

The 7th amendment pertains to civil cases. Here it is:

"In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."

Can anyone argue that Terri's life is worth less than $20?

[FReepaholic]

...She, essentially, is being treated as property...

Exactly. As I understand it, she has never had an attorney represent HER.

The attorneys have been represeniting either her parents or her murderer...er, husband.

So essentially, she is being denied due process under the Constitution.

[muawiyah]

From time to time we come upon these anomalies in the law that suggest not everybody in the South was happy with the Compromise of 1876 and managed to slip "Negro Control" back into their law.

This particular situation in Florida where a living human being is being handled as property is highly suggestive of that being the case here.

I've been trying to figure out the class/race angle to this one but haven't quite done so ~ it's just that I suspect that's where this business comes from.

In former times, of course, this sort of thing would not involve white folk of course!

[bvw]

Could a grand jury look into the obvious criminality here -- on it's own volition, and supeona Terri, the nurses and the nurses assistants who have heard heard communicate, etc?