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
I had picked up during his interview tonight that Attorney Gibbs said 1976 when he should have said 1982, and mentioned it in a previous post. Thank you for reposting the testimony from Terri's friend, though I was already well aware of it.
This mistake by Judge Greer on when Karen Ann Quinlan died, would allow him to reverse himself without admitting he has been wrong on everything.