Review my posts (among the bizzilion). I've been calling for and attempting to outline the changes to current law we need to insist upon as the best hope of preventing this in the future.
My point about the Schindler's attorneys is that they prepared sloppy briefs. No excuse for that.
Based on your prompt, I did review some of your posting history. I think you have a good sentiment about reigning in the judiciary, and I think your outrage at the Schiavo incident is tempered.
I've given the matter some serious deliberation, and my outrage is not tempered. This is a miscarriage of justice. This is state sponsored taking of life against the patient's wishes. (No, I can't prove it, but the evidence is not clear and convincing that Terri would choose death - and in my dreamworld, suicide is illegal on moral grounds). Applleate courts did not review the contentious fact evidence, Greer blew off a motion based on Terri's utterances because the motion was not timely. This is not justice. And the statutory framework is irrelevant when the jusde and appeal system avert from honest finding of fact.
My point about the Schindler's attorneys is that they prepared sloppy briefs. No excuse for that.
I haven't read the briefs, but I have read the Fed District and Fed Circuit opinions. Life in the balance, and the system justoifies taking an innocent life because some lawyer didn't find the exact right argument. That is not justice, I don't care how it is spun. I know, in my heart, that what is being done is a travesty of monumental proportions. If you have a law degree, and are honest, you know it too.