[clee1]

Exactly, and this is what gets missing in the emotive posts from some FReepers.

I hate that this is happening to Terri and her family.

The law sometimes sux, but it is still the law. This case smells of impropriety, but 13 years is long enough to get legal relief is any is available. The parents have been ruled against consistently.

The poor girl, baring a miracle from God, will soon die - and there seems to be nothing anyone can do about it.

There IS justice to be had, however - If not in this life, then in the next. If Terri's husband or the judge did something wrong, they WILL answer for it at some point. I guarantee it.

[supercat]

The parents have been ruled against consistently.

Only one judge, among all those visited, as had the authority to decide any matters of fact: Judge Greer.

Although there was another trial court judge that did take a case (and found for the Schindlers!), his ruling was overturned basically on the grounds that the Schindlers' sending the case to him constituted improper "judge shopping" and only Judge Greer was authorized to decide matters related to Terri's case.