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To: Samizdat

Her family offered to give him all the money he wants. He wants her dead. If she lives and gets better she can testify against him.


4,272 posted on 03/10/2005 12:09:42 PM PST by freepertoo
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No DCF intervention in Schiavo case

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/10/Tampabay/No_DCF_intervention_i.shtml

Published March 10, 2005

CLEARWATER - A Pinellas-Pasco judge today refused to allow the Department of Children and Families to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case.

The decision by Circuit Judge George Greer also means the judge won't consider DCF's request for a 60-day stay of his order that Schiavo's feeding tube can be removed at 1 p.m. on March 18.

The agency had said it received abuse and neglect complaints about Schiavo that it needed time to investigate.

But in his order, Greer said all of the allegations have previously been brought before the court. Greer ruled that no law gave DCF the authority to become a party to a guardianship.

Greer also noted that DCF has received numerous abuse complaints about Schiavo in previous years and determined them to be unfounded.

Greer wrote in his order, "What is particularly unsettling is that when asked whether DCF believed that part of its mandated duty was to review orders of this court, the answer from DCF counsel was "yes.' "

The judge said DCF's action appeared intended to circumvent the final judgment of the court that Schiavo would not want to live by artificial means. She collapsed 15 years ago after suffering cardiac arrest related to a chemical imbalance in her body.

Her husband, Michael Schiavo, seeks to have the feeding tube removed while her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have waged a long court fight to stop him, saying their daughter is not in a persistent vegetative state.


4,286 posted on 03/10/2005 12:15:01 PM PST by amdgmary (Please visit www.terrisfight.org & www.theempirejournal.com)
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