Wittemore made his decision on a two hour court hearing, and based on that thinks he knows that there is not a good chance for the case to win, so he turned it down.
She hasn't had a swallow test since 1992.
Whether she can smile, love or swallow - none of these things count. Whether she can be rehabilitated, this doesn't count. What counts in the eyes of the court is that Judge Greer ruled that Terri didn't want to live in this way. Because Florida law allows hearsay in these particular cases, the judge accepted the affidavits of the three people he did. Then ruled that Terri would have preferred to die.
That is the heart of the evilness taking place right now. The only way to break that is to prove that the sworn tesimony was perjury. I suspect that the judge didn't think the case had merit because of that. I'm not excusing him, mind you, cause I think Michael and company cooked this up so they can do it.
The problem is the law that allows this. It's a legal law, just bad.
If I lived in Florida, I'd be working to change it.
I know I am never moving there, at least without a very clear living will. The majority of these cases where judges ruled to kill people that have made it to my attention have come from Florida.