Maybe I missed this...has any Judge ordered her feeding tube to be put back in?
Oh, geez. A Clinton judge? Keep praying, people. The innocent must be protected!!!!
got a "service not available" page. It might be too overloaded right now. Guess we'll have to try in a bit.
Oy vey...a Clinton judge?
I think the logic here is that any judge will have to do further research and she can't be allowed to die until that's all done. Thus the fedeing tube.
Not exactly comforting.
For those politicians who ask the "Government to stay out of these intimate family medical matters"
just go to
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/obqm3.pdf
to see what Medicare and Medicaid decisions are made on our behalf.
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Clinton appointed judges are death-oriented, so this is not a good development.
The GOOD news is that Congress controls all inferior Federal courts, including their funding. Congress is the Sleeping Giant that has long slumbered while the District Circuit Courts of Appeal have been systematically shredding corners off the Constitution....
This is all good in the big picture for America, public pressure FORCING our legislators to wade into the judicial sewer with a plunger.
I pray it all works in time for Terri's sake. If it doesn't, she will be a martyr poster child for political campaigns for years to come and the Libs will rue the day she dies....
"It was assigned to U.S. District Judge James Whittemore, who was nominated to the court in 1999 by President Clinton. Gibbs said the judge sent a message that he would call the Schindlers' lawyers back to court once he completed a review of the filings in the case. Whittemore's staff was not available for comment early Monday morning."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050321/D88VDJ4O0.html
Sadly, it looks like he is dragging his feet and will wait until Terri dies. He could have ordered the reinsertion of the feeding tube the moment he got the filing,
I just watched MIchael Schiavo on CNN.he was not with Felos, his attorney was a woman.
Anybody knows what that is all about.Has Felos run away?
He was appointed by Bill Clinton.
This makes me NERVOUS.
JUDGE JAMES WHITTEMORE RULING:
Felling Eagle's Nest Tree Costs Two Men $100,000
TAMPA, Florida, February 8, 2005 (ENS) - A federal judge in Tampa has ordered an Indiana man to pay a total of $90,000 and serve a year of probation for violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Mylon Stockton of Noblesville, Indiana was penalized for cutting down a tree containing an eagle's nest on a property in Venice, Florida.
The property owner, co-defendant, Mark Borinsky North Port, Florida, was fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to a similar offense.
According to public real estate records, Borinsky purchased a piece of property in Venice, Florida in November 2002 for about $59,000.
According to the criminal information filed in the case, Borinsky and Stockton went onto Borinsky's Venice property on November 27, 2002. According to the charges, Borinsky attempted to cut down a pine tree containing an eagle nest which was visible from beneath the tree.
Under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act the presence of an eagle nest may result in restrictions on the use of, or removal of trees from, the vicinity of the nest.
The tree began to fall but toppled on another tree. It stayed standing at an angle with Borinsky's chainsaw stuck in the trunk. A neighbor told the two men the tree contained an eagle's nest and that it was illegal to cut the tree down.
Stockton ignored the neighbor and used his car jack to lift the tree trunk and free his chainsaw This caused the nest tree to dislodge from the other tree and fall to the ground.
Stockton and Borinsky then cut several additional trees down on top of the nest tree, which destroyed it.
The prosecutor told U.S. District Judge James Whittemore during the sentencing hearing on January 31 that most of the funds Stockton was ordered to pay represent the profit realized when the property, by then without the eagle nest, was resold for about $150,000 in April 2004.
Stockton was sentenced to the same $10,000 fine as Borinsky but was also sentenced to community service consisting of a $40,000 donation to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Florida Bald Eagle Conservation Fund and a $40,000 donation to the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey.
A single violation of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act is a misdemeanor. The maximum penalty is one year imprisonment and a fine of either $100,000, or twice the financial gain or loss caused by the offense.
Judge Whittemore case:
Tampa man get 7 years for $14M fraud
March 19, 2003, Tampa, Fla. -- A businessman who led an organization that bilked $14 million from government health care programs was sentenced to seven years in prison. Barry D. Haught, 49, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Whittemore Tuesday after pleading guilty in May to two federal counts that included conspiracy to commit Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
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.''
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???!!!