We can always count on the Judicial branch, cant we?
Posted on 03/25/2005 9:47:16 AM PST by bust
Bumping the Timeline facts for posters who have their facts all wrong.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/06/Tampabay/Quiet_judge_persists_.shtml:
Just don't ask Greer about his college housemate Jim Morrison, the legendary front man of the rock 'n' roll group the Doors.
Nobody took Morrison in stride, not even Greer.
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When Greer came into adulthood in the 1960s, he was about as counterculture as Barry Goldwater, the presidential candidate he voted for in 1964. One of Greer's favorite bands is the Bee Gees.
His biggest brush then with nonconformity: being cited for underage drinking about the time he entered FSU and hunting without a license in 1959.
Greer, whose family moved to Dunedin when he was 4, spent 21/2 years at St. Petersburg Junior College before entering Florida State University in 1962 as a 20-year-old. He majored in marketing.
He moved to a house about a mile from the FSU campus with a friend and some students he didn't know. Greer described the house this way: "Jim Morrison and five normal people."
One Halloween, Greer recalled, Morrison greeted children out trick-or-treating at the front door completely naked. Morrison had lighter fluid in his mouth. He spit it out, touching a match to the fluid to create a roaring flame.
"The poor little kids ran screaming to their parents," Greer said.
The Morrison biography, No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman, provides a description Greer won't contradict.
Morrison "drank their beers, ate their food, and wore their clothes without asking," the book said of Morrison's relationship with his housemates.
"He kept careful records of all his actions, and their reactions, writing in his journals as if he were an anthropologist and his housemates were his subjects. In less than three months' time, Jim had the household frantic. Everyone was living in a constant state of anxiety over what was going to happen next.
"It all blew up one night in December ... when Jim was playing Elvis too loud."
After one semester, the housemates asked Morrison to leave. He transferred to UCLA in California, where he found fame.
"He was a bright guy," Greer said. "He liked his tequila. All of us at one time or another had him on the floor with our fists raised."
EXCERPTS FROM CYNTHIA SHOOK MAY 8, 2001 DEPOSITION
Backround:
In late 1991, 1½ years after Terri’s collapse, Michael Schiavo became involved in an intimate relationship with Cindy Shook. The romance continued for approximately one year. It can be documented that the two spent a weekend at the Don Caesar hotel in St. Petersburg Beach and they also contacted a Century 21 Realtor on the premise of purchasing a home.
In May of 1992, at the apex of the romance, Schiavo had Terri’s 2 pet cats euthanized to clear the way for his moving in with Cindy and her pet dog.
In the summer of 1992, Schiavo moved into his parent’s home. We can speculate with reasonable accuracy, it was at the instructions of his attorney, since the living arrangement would be contrary to Schiavo’s "loving husband" image they were projecting for the upcoming November 1992 malpractice trial.
In April 2001, Cindy Shook (married name Brasher) was interviewed by an investigator working in Terri’s behalf. Unwilling to come forward because of her immense fear of Schiavo, Cindy had to be subpoenaed and was then subsequently deposed on May 8, 2001 to try and learn more regarding her intimate knowledge of Michael Schiavo’s character traits.
Excerpts; May 8, 2001 Deposition:
Cindy Shook describing Schiavo’s possessiveness.
"he’s very jealous. He stalked me at my…at where I worked after I stopped dating…when he would get mad at me he would tell me, I would rather be laying in bed in the nursing home with her than with you. I mean he can be the most incredibly mean person"
When asked if she were afraid that Michael would physically harm her or if he would harm children.
"I am concerned about retaliation because I have a child -I have children and a husband. I know him, I know what he told me I said he could be a very mean person."
She spoke of how Schiavo stalked her for close to a year after the breakup and that she received repeated phone calls.
"He came on the floor looking for me several times. I felt it was out of character for him to get a job as an orderly at the hospital That was concerning to me. When he would come up to the floor looking for her she was not scared the first time but later was scared.
In town I would look up when I was driving…not at my work- she would look up in the rear view mirror and there would be Michael Schiavo. I would look up and he would be behind me in traffic. It continued for several months after he didn’t work at the hospital. She would change lanes, try to make a turn and he would do the same. He did this about ten times.
One time he was behind me in traffic he got next to me in a two-lane going the same way, and he changed lanes basically right on top of where I was at, and I had to swerve not to be hit. I had to swerve off the road. Michael ran me off the road. I considered it as stalking, dangerous and guessed potentially life threatening."
Cindy thought about getting a restraining order. She talked to an off duty police officer in her building
They discussed marriage. She said Schiavo asked what would you do if I asked you to marry me. He never discussed getting a divorce.
Cindy said Schiavo got angry when asked questions about Terri saying:
"this had destroyed his life and he was being robed of a normal life."
Regarding Terri’s care, according to Cindy Shook, Michael Schiavo said
"How the hell should I know we never spoke about this, my God I was only 25 years old. How the hell should I know? We were young. We never spoke of this."
I firmly believe that it is the proper time for the other two Branches of Government to naturally realign/adjust the balance of power in this country (I do not consider the media or the banking establishments to be the Fourth or Fifth Branches, as an aside).
The Legislative and the Executive Branches definitely need to start clipping back on the judiciary's over-reaching grabs at power, and in some cases potential procedural abuses. It is a healthy Constitutional function to have the different Branches kind of "war" it out (in a procedural sense) amongst themselves when one branch over-reaches its Constitutional authority or engages in an activity that may require clarification from a Constitutional perspective.
Similar to how the ACLU and liberal groups push highly experimental "test" cases to further their agendas, it would be nice seeing an experimental "procedural homicide" charge floated up as a trial balloon to see how far it goes and see if a precedent can be established.
It's worth a shot!
Schiavo can't legally marry his fiancee since he's still legally married to Terri. They do have two kids and have been living together for years but they aren't married.
Well Greer should be put in prison because he is party to murder.The other Judges involve din this should be Impeached because they lazy-and Ignorant of the US Constituion-and contemptuous of the expressed will of the
Legislative and Executive. I would not go so far as to suggest these all ought be sent to prison-but they ought be IMPEACHED. And I really have doubts about Gov. Jeb Bush,and
President Bush --who claimed to have power only to refuse use it? IF the Judiciary is now the LAW then America could
retire the national debt simply by allowing the Legislative and Executive branches of our government die from dehydration and lack of food. Clearly the Judiciary has NO concern for the US Constitution nor the clearly stated purpose for government (to secure the God given Rights) They violate the Law at will,so why bother with
written Law or those branches of our Federal government
that Hamilton said were intended to be stronger than the
Judiciary?
"We are watching the abortion of a disabled woman."
Nailed it
Which also brings up another point entirely;
When civil awards are made, they should be "held" for the purposes for which they were made. This wouldn't be occurring if that were the case.
Once again, the lawyers and judges to the rescue!
Not until someone dies.
I wonder if her family has a case against him for a neglect and or wrongful death suit.
Judge Greer set aside the settlemnt money so that Medicaid couldn't spend it down when Greer and Felos put Terri into the hospice. This is Medicaid fraud. They didn't get Capone for murder either.
That's a GREAT point! I'm sure the family is inaccurate and that USA Today and the Washington Whatever have it together.
I was thinking more of the births of the children, etc.
seem to recall someone has died--was an earlier case that
involved Judge Death(Greer)
Ping.
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