Attorney Gibbs is really pushing this.
He said someone sent him this info over the internet who had read the decision and caught that Greer had made a huge mistake in dismissing the testimony that Terri had opposed the ending of life support by Karen's parents because Greer concluded, from using the wrong date, that Terri would have been a young teenager at the time and would not have known enough to have an informed opinion.
Gibbs knows that Greer will rule as he pleases, but he said if this were a criminal case, it would be overturned for reversible error. He is pushing this like gangbusters.
Of course, the public in general doesn't know what Gibbs is talking about. They do get the idea that Greer made a gigantic factual error in the case, and that is good for them to know.
Here's a bit of background, and a repeat of link I already posted:
The parents testified their daughter never talked to them about life support. But, they and Meyer (Terri's friend) said, Mrs. Schiavo supported placing her grandmother on a ventilator and opposed Karen Ann Quinlan's parents, who gained national attention in the 1970s when fighting to remove their daughter from life support
http://www.sptimes.com/News/012800/TampaBay/Family_says_marriage_.shtml.
David Gibbs III, the attorney for Schiavo's parents, filed a motion Wednesday asking Greer to vacate his 2000 ruling and hold a new trial.
He says Greer discounted Meyer's testimony because he wrongly believed Quinlan was dead in 1982.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/03/Tampabay/Quinlan_name_resurfac.shtml
"The court discredited Ms. Meyer's testimony because of its OWN MISTAKEN CONCLUSION (emphasis mine) that Karen Ann Quinlan was dead in 1982. In reality, Ms. Quinlan was very much alive in 1982," Gibbs wrote. "Ms. Quinlan did not die until 1985, some nine years after her court case ended and her respirator was removed."
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPrint.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200503\CUL20050303b.html
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