[Chancellor Palpatine]

QED, all he has to say is this - No, I didn't strangle or beat her, I sought court approval for every nickel out of her fund and committed no theft, I didn't enter into a grand conspiracy, and made rehabilitative efforts were taken".

Its akin to having your neighbor go up and down the street with a megaphone saying you're a bestialist - its untrue (I hope) - you deny, the burden shifts, and they have to prove it.

[FITZ]

all he has to say is this

You know him personally? Ask him why he doesn't just get a divorce, move on with his life and new family and just leave Terri to be --- her family can worry about her --- he really doesn't have to.

[msmagoo]

Has Michael Schiavo responded publically to the allegations made by the Schindler family?

IMO there is enough evidence to support a belief he is not acting in the best interests of his wife. Do you believe he would benefit from her death?

[unsycophant]

<< Its akin to having your neighbor go up and down the street with a megaphone saying you're a bestialist - its untrue (I hope) - you deny, the burden shifts, and they have to prove it. >>

Yeah, but things like that only happen in real life. Here on the Internet, anything goes--and that seems to be what people use to gauge how laws should work, or how society should behave-probably why they are often surprised when real life won't cooperate.

[Notwithstanding]

Palpy, you are misleading all concerned. You are purposefully misstating the legal standard.

Given hubby's place at teh center of a matter of public concern, hubby "...must show that such statements were made with knowledge of their false implications or with reckless disregard of their truth."

His denials and claims do not suffice as proof of anything especially given a host of public facts about which opposite conclusions may easily and reasonably be drawn.

Stop grandstanding as a legal sage - you are not.

You are a Culture of Death shill and you are abusing your credentials as member of the bar to shut people up.