Terri Schiavo's family have been denied all visitation per Terri's sister

[kcvl]

Per Fox News...

[Peach]

One was taken off life support.

My husband's elderly aunt had a feeding tube removed.

[windchime]

At the time of Terri's incident he was working at an Italian Restaurant. It was his boss's attorney (don't know why an attorney turned up so early in this situation) that suggested and followed through on Michael being Terri's guardian.

He has also worked as a manager for McDonalds.

[Howlin]

The family is accusing him now of causing her injuries, they are defaming his character left and right.

Yes, they are; all over time. It's unseemly.

[marajade]

Yes it is definitive. At least the USSC seems to think it is.

[Cboldt]

Whatever. Michael Schiavo's testimony was upheld.

You are mispresenting the way the legal system works. Michael's testimony is not at issue in the legal posture of the case before the SCOTUS. Are you a lawyer?

[AmishDude]

In Terri's 1998 hearings, Felos infamously advocated what he called the "spoon test." The test of whether one is a person with a full right to life, he said, is whether he or she can raise a spoon to his lips unaided.

I've always advocated the "calculus test". Granted, I envision a much roomier world.

[marajade]

Michael told the court what Terri would have wanted. The Court agreed.

[ContraryMary]

Credible is a low threshold and is in no way definitive.

If its good enough for the U.S. Supreme Court, it's good enough for me.

[Howlin]

The effect of the USSC refusing to hear the case means they upheld the earlier decision which was in Michael Schiavo's favor.

What is so hard to understand about that?

And it was all nine of them.

[jla]

What's your opinion of post #624?
If there's nothing to hide, or hide from, why wouldn't MS release the records and scans to at least the Schindlers?

[drc43]

Thanks... Just wondered if there were expenses that as long as there was a settlement,they thought should be covered.

I think if so, that would change the color of that statement.

[Howlin]

Joint guardianship...at most.

That is not the law in Florida; parents don't have a right to that.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The family is accusing him now of causing her injuries, they are defaming his character left and right.

Perhaps, they've got nothing else to go on. Perhaps the reason it wasn't admitted as evidence in a court is possible their own attorney's thought it was ludicrous as well.

[marajade]

Thank you. Juries/Judges find in favor with just sworn testimony all the time in cases. What's so difficult to understand?

[freedomdefender]

It's unseemly.

Kinda like Michael having kids with another woman, and living with this lady as his common law wife, but insisting on staying married with Terri and refusing to let her family take her home and care for her. Now all THAT is unseemly!

[Cboldt]

Michael told the court what Terri would have wanted. The Court agreed.

Again, in the case of Greer's court, agreed. But the question of the veracity, sufficiency, and validity of that testimnony was OUTSIDE of the question posed to SCOTUS.

[Howlin]

Fortunately, the congressional bill would let a federal judge review the whole thing - de novo - as if new, from the ground up

The judge will be looking at the evidence; there won't be a new trial.

[marajade]

Look what they had in the Scott Peterson case. One hair in a pair of plyers and the rest sworn testimony.