Clearwater, Florida-AP -- Another legal wrinkle involving Terri Schiavo (SHY'-voh), the severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a Florida right-to-die case.
Governor Jeb Bush is asking an appeals court to disqualify a judge in the case, saying he's biased.
The judge, W. Douglas Baird, refused to take himself off the case yesterday.
Baird is presiding over a challenge to a hastily-passed law that allowed Bush to order Schiavo's feeding tubes reinserted. At a hearing last week, Baird said the new law intruded on Schiavo's privacy rights and was "presumptively unconstitutional."
http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=1535856The judge, W. Douglas Baird, refused to take himself off the case yesterday. How strange! Think about it. If you were a judge and one of the parties involved objected to you because they thought you might be biased, WOULDN'T YOU STEP ASIDE?! This is weird. Baird must have some axe to grind or a point to make. Baird and Greer are not very gracious, are they.