Posted on 03/21/2005 6:21:04 AM PST by MichaelP
Posted on Mon, Mar. 21, 2005
R E L A T E D C O N T E N T
LAST-MINUTE ACTION: David Gibbs III, the attorney for the Schindler family, holds a copy of the lawsuit filed in the Terri Schiavo case outside the U.S. Courthouse early Monday morning in Tampa. CHRIS O'MEARA/AP
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Judge receives Schiavo lawsuit
BY PHIL LONG
plong@herald.com
TAMPA - Capping a hectic night of action by the Republican Congress and President George Bush to pave the way, a new federal lawsuit designed to keep Terri Schiavo alive landed early this morning in the hands of a federal judge appointed by Democrat Bill Clinton.
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If you had time to type the above commentary, then you surely had time to delete your tripe.
This case isn't even close and is a no brainer. Even a Clinton Judge should be able to get it RIGHT. Why am I so worried? No need to answer. The question is rhetorical.
Judge Whittemore case:
Ex-Publicist Of Baptist Group Jailed Again In Forgery Case -- Tampa Tribune
TAMPA - Bernice Edwards, a former National Baptist Convention publicist, returned to jail for nine months Friday after a judge found she violated probation for a tax evasion conviction. U.S. District Judge James Whittemore found that she obtained a loan from an Ohio businessman and violated Ohio's forgery law in securing a lease on a $1,000-a-month apartment. Edwards denied the forgery and said the loan was for her daughter's education. ``Everything about your demeanor in court today absolutely convinces me I'm right,'' Whittemore said. ``You are not an honest person.''
And EVERY person who is disabled should be fearful if death by starvation is permitted to any brain damaged person without written permission to do so.
The culture of death cannot win this fight!
Thanks ... a public DEFENDER?
Hmmmm
Hearing scheduled for 3pm
Yeah, I caught that, too. I'm glad to hear that the 11th Circuit is standing by.
Thank you SO much for this story!!! I read it when it first came out yrs ago and haven't been able to find it since.
You rock!
It's a no brainer, Fawnn. There is NOTHING complicated about it.
I am not a lawyer, so does this mean the court will wait to order the replacement of the tube until it decides whether or not to look at the case again? A "Yes, I will" or "No, I won't" decision on just looking at the case shouldn't take too long, would it? Usually, how long does it take to make that decision?
Fox just announced there will be a 3 p.m. hearing on the injunction. He's called the lawyers to his office then to decide.
Judge Whittemore case:
SENTENCES HANDED DOWN IN TAMPA POLICE CORRUPTION CASE Three former members of an elite drug unit were sentenced to federal prison Monday for framing drug suspects, violating citizens´ civil rights and lying to cover-up what became a brotherhood of corruption. Declaring the scandal a "nightmare" that continues to plague the Manatee County Sheriff´s Office and the credibility of the judicial system, U.S. District Judge James Whittemore said he had to send the men to prison despite pleas for leniency and their cooperation with investigators. He sentenced Paul D.
Maass to 5 years and three months; Wayne V. Wyckoff to two years and three months and Thomas C. Wooten to a year. Whittemore said he would recommend they be sent to a minimum- or medium-security prison where they might be safer from other inmates. All were deputies with the Delta drug squad. The scandal began to unfold in 1998 when a man reported to the sheriff´s internal affairs unit that deputies searched his motel room without a warrant and took $9,000 in cash. The complaint was a pathway to a wide-range of allegations including that squad members twice beat suspects and lied on reports to cover it up and took money from the department´s confidential informant fund. The three pleaded guilty and have been cooperating with the U.S. Attorney´s Office, the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in an investigation of corruption at the sheriff´s office. Two other former deputies also have pleaded guilty.
Charges are pending against a sixth. The scandal has forced the Manatee County state attorney´s office to drop charges against more than 100 people accused of drug crimes by the Delta squad. The judge was told of a largely unsupervised atmosphere where drug agents framed suspects, stole their money and lied in arrest reports and on the witness stand. In one case, Sara Smith lost custody of her 1-year-old daughter after deputies planted crack cocaine in her home and then testified against her to win a conviction. Smith, now 22 years old, settled her civil lawsuit with the sheriff´s office Friday for $275,000 but her attorney said lawsuits against the individual officers are pending. Daytona Beach News Journal, August 15, 2000 http://www.news-journalonline.com/
CORRUPT DEPUTY LANDS TERM IN PRISON
http://support.casals.com/aaaflash1/busca.asp?ID_AAAControl=2964
The Tampa Tribune, August 19, 2000
http://www.tampatrib.com
Back to USA with links to other States.
...why am I concerned about fairness???!!!
"Hearing scheduled for 3pm"
He IS trying to run out the clock. By that time Terri will have been dehydrated and starved for over 3 whole days.
Congress and President Bush got to it on Palm Sunday, but the judge can't get to it, until 3 pm Monday (he got it before 5 am today, I think I read somewhere).
Then there will be arguments in the court, he will review the case for another couple of days....
Democrats -- defenders of terrorists and murderers of innocents.
I can't imagine that De Lay and Frist went through all this trouble just to get hung up bt a foot dragging liberal. I heard last night on MSNBC that if nothing happened they would appeal to Appeal Court in Atanta right away.
This judge is demented. He must get a joy out of someone suffering, no doubt hopes she will die or be permanently damaged.
Does anybody have a link to the text of the law that was just passed?
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