Terri Schiavo's parents ask judge to let her divorce husband

The Miami Herald ^ | 2-28-05 | VICKIE CHACHERE

[TAdams8591]

VICKIE CHACHERE

Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. - Terri Schiavo's parents asked a Pinellas court judge Monday to allow her to divorce her husband - in either life or death - in a court filing accusing Michael Schiavo of adultery and not acting in his wife's best interests.

The filing was one of a flurry of 15 motions filed by Bob and Mary Schindler as they now have less than three weeks to find a legal way to keep their severely brain-damaged daughter alive.

Terri Schiavo is scheduled to have the feeding tube that has kept her alive for 15 years removed March 18 unless her parents can convince an appeals court to block Michael Schiavo again. Michael Schiavo says he will have the tube pulled because his wife once told him she would never want to be kept alive artificially.

David Gibbs, the Schindler's attorney, said Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer has indicated he will not hear the divorce request and five other motions filed Monday - but that only means that the matters are now on their way to being appealed to the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland........

Terri Schiavo's parents ask judge to let her divorce husband

[supercat]

Remember, Supercat? Terri's friend said she supposedly expressed that she was considering divorce just prior to her supposed, "collapse."

No doubt, but (1) if Terri had an honest judge such statements would be irrelevant because Michael would have been booted as guardian long ago and an honest guardian would have already filed for and received a divorce; (2) given that Terri doesn't have an honest judge, any such statements will be irrelevant unless or until she gets one, whereupon (1) above takes effect.

[FR_addict]

Here you go:

Before fight over death, Terri Schiavo had a life

Friends say she loves animals, struggles with shyness

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/24/schiavo.profile.ap/

PINELLAS PARK, Florida (AP) -- Diane Meyer can recall only one time that her best friend, Terri Schiavo, really got angry with her. It was in 1981, and it haunts her still.

[Bushforlife]

A good deal of what goes on in courtrooms is theater. One side makes their presentation of their version of the truth, and then so does the other side. If one reads accounts of why a jury passes a particular verdict, it is very common to see that the jury members thought that a particular defendant/plaintiff/expert was "nice" or "not nice", "smiled a lot" or "smiled too much" or "didn't smile enough", or any one of a number of other intangible subjective factors of each sides' theatrical presentation of their position; very often such a subjective impression is the basis for the juror's decision. In addition, does anyone REALLY believe that a judge does not interpret the facts according to his own personal biases and politics? The judicial system has much less to do with justice than it does with officially sanctioning a particular agenda.

The family has every right to mount whatever case they wish to keep their daughter alive. They have a right to manipulate the system to their favor as much as MS and Greer have in order to push THEIR agenda. It is, after all, this joke of a judicial system that is attempting to kill their daughter.

[angelanddevil2]

The fact that the guy is with another woman and has children with her, to me it means that he is not precisely acting in Terri's best interest....

[FormerACLUmember]

Yeah, for all the phony talk from Michael Schiavo about what Terry's "wishes" would be, who can question or doubt that, with her husband living in open and notorious adultery, she would wish to divorce him? And, given the fact of the two children born into this adulterous relationship, I can't imagine any sane judge even entertaining the idea of the outcome being contested.

Your point is brilliant.

Michael Schaivo is a your basic homicidal bigamist (with his common law wife and kids) trying to murder the "wife" Terri he physically abused for many years (and probably nearly killed), for the proceeds from the phony malpractice suit he scammed.

[lugsoul]

Sure. I'll just leave all of you so-called "conservatives" to engage in your mutual admiration society and crow about ways to subvert the various processes of government to achieve the only end you've already decided is just.

Let me leave you with a few things you already know -

Terri isn't going to somehow get better and dramatically walk into a courtroom and tell the world how Michael really beat her. In fact, she isn't going to tell anyone anything. No matter how this court case comes out.

You don't know whether Michael is telling the truth or not.

No parent can rationally accept the loss of a child.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Well, since the Church has been modernizing everything since Vatican II, maybe they can go ahead and grant an annulment in this case. While they're at it, they should excommunicate her loving husband.

[beezdotcom]

Then I guess you know that Terri made such a statement, since you want someone to testify to it under oath?

Try again.

[atruelady]

Honesty about what???

Are you trying to say that I am
secretly not being honest about something?

I have no clue what you are rambling on about.

[Tamar1973]

Terri Schiavo's parents asked a judge Monday to allow the severely brain-damaged woman to divorce her husband..

Why this wasn't pursued right when he started shacking up with that lady and knocking her up is beyond me.

[Jrabbit]

Why would it be perjury? Do you know she never said it? Maybe she saw a movie or TV show about someone lost in the desert, dying from thirst. Perhaps she said that she would hate to die that way. How horrible a death that would be!

Michael isn't the only one that had conversations with Terri. He's the only one that gains monetarily from her death, though.

[nicmarlo]

Why haven't you responded to my numerous posts regarding Michael's own contradictory testimony and Cindy Shook's affidavit? Because it's not "crowing"?

[TAdams8591]

If the hearsay favors her death, Judge Greer HEARS IT. If the hearsay doesn't favor Terri's death, Judge Greer doesn't HEAR IT.

Brilliant point that YOU and others have made!

[Theodore R.]

The divorce angle has been pursued before, and George W. "Haman" Greer rejects it out of hand: "till death do us part," you know.

[sinkspur]

Well, since the Church has been modernizing everything since Vatican II, maybe they can go ahead and grant an annulment in this case.

It cannot do that.

While they're at it, they should excommunicate her loving husband.

On what basis? Is he even Catholic?

[TAdams8591]

Wholeheartedly Agreed.

[FR_addict]

She says her famous statement to her friend in that article:

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/24/schiavo.profile.ap/

"Where there's life," Meyer recalls her saying, "there's hope."

Maybe some of you may find this info useful.

http://www.divorcesource.com/research/dl/incompetent/97mar52.shtml

[Theodore R.]

the only end you've already decided is just

Exactly: there is only one just end to this tragedy: free Terri to her loving parents. Anything else is euthanasia!

[TAdams8591]

Thanks for straightening it out.

When was that. Do you know off-hand?????

[atruelady]

Ohhhhhhh!!!

OK. But, the does the person filing the motion on behalf have to be a legally appointed guardian etc. (HINO)?

Does the law provide for someone other than a guardian to apply?