Posted on 02/25/2005 7:36:06 AM PST by AliVeritas
While many parties have become involved in the Terri Schiavo case, there has been much activity under the radar, not reported by the mainstream press.
LAKELAND, FL (PRWEB) Friday, 25 February 2005 - Terri Schiavo supporters have been bolstered by a surprise, last-minute filing from an unexpected source. Lakeland, Florida resident, Gordon Watts, who filed a petition for writ of Habeas Corpus with Florida’s high court on behalf of Schiavo in late November of 2003, shortly after Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed and re-inserted, has struggled against powerful interests who have attempted to discredit and dismiss his involvement in this high-profile case. Watts also has experience in the U.S. Supreme Court, which is expected to hear his racial profiling case today, and can be found at the court’s official website: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/04-8132.htm regarding a situation in which he was asked to leave an establishment based allegedly on his minority ethnic background.
In spite of much opposition and ridicule from mainstream media and other parties, however, Watts’ case has remained alive in Florida’s Supreme Court for over a year until this past Wednesday.
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God bless him, and may God grant that the appeal to the US Supreme Court be expedited and successful.
Imagine that!
Does this mean that there will be a stay now because of this? How is this a boost? I don't understand what the ruling is and how it is a boost to Terri?
Good info on that guy's site:
http://hometown.aol.com/Gww1210/
Wow! Finally someone speaks the truth to the courts!
BUMP!
Now this gets hot and heavy!
I did not read the fine print.
This needs to be Front Page or Extended News with the change in the title of "[Florida] Supreme Court splits 4-3 on surprise last minute filing in Terri Schiavo Case".
So he lost, 4-3. I don't quite know what that means, except that with this extremely liberal, activist court I would have expected a much worse loss.
His second point, that they have no right to hold her in a hospice beyond 6 months and should show habeus corpus is much to the point. Especially since George Felos was chairman of the board of this hospice when she was admitted, a clear conflict of interest of the worst kind.
Ping -- this may be headed to US Supreme Court -- article said so [towards bottom] -- may want to ping others!!!
I read the list of things Terry's husband denied her over the years and it really seems cruel. No walks outside. therapy, wall decorations and such? He seems to have an agenda of his own.
the significance is that he now has an order from which to appeal to the US Supreme Court. In otherwords, he has a procedural vehicle to assert a constituional claim to the U.S. Supreme Court.
But the U.S. Supreme Court still has to agree to hear the case. That takes 4 votes from the sitting justices. Gonna be tough is Rehnquist isn't participating.
May be headed now directly to US Supreme Court -- according to the article...
Note that Jeb Bush could help with the filing...
I"m very surprised with the decision. The four justices who voted to dismiss are conservative to moderate, and the three who voted to keep the suit alive are the liberals!
Rehnquist is still Chief Justice and a voting Justice. He is chosing to work from home, but can come in to submit papers for a case -- and discussion.
Sandra O'Connor might come through on this one -- and this might be another person to rule as well -- so I count 6-7 possible on hearing the case.
I will tell you that the willful refusal of walks, music, windows, and other external stimuli are to ensure that she continues to appear non-responsive. As a nurse, he would know what happens to people with all their capacities when they are confined in a hospital room for extended periods.
My dad went into cardia arrest last year. He was in the hospital for 8 weeks, in a private room in a cardiac care unit. Wonderful place. He underwent bypass surgery, then surgery for a de-fibrillator. But, by the sixth week he became more and more depressed, less interactive, refused to see anyone but my mom, my sister and myself. I walked in one afternoon and it had gotten so bad, my father was staring at the floor, drooling, and he wouldn't respond when I talked to him.
The nurses told me that this often happens to people. So, if this is the affect that six weeks of confinement can do to a cardiac patient, think of what 5 years of confinement with forced sensory deprivation would do to someone who might possibly be trying to recover.
By the way, against hospital policy, one of the nurses helped me get my dad in a wheel chair. We wrapped him up with blankets really good, and we took him outside.
Have to get some things done... Be out of touch until who knows...
Well, Rehnquist sat it out on a few recent cases. Whether that was during his treatment, I don't know. I do know that he is working from home. In any event, there may be enough votes for cert. Obviously, this would be an emergency petition.
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