Someone please explain to me the basis of all those courts ruling in the same direction. They were state, federal, appeals, Supreme. Why didn't just one go the other way?
Purely speculation but I would say they were covering for a fellow judge and didn't like the Legislaive and Executive branches of government interfering.
I intend to urge not only interference but purges.
All decisions by the higher courts were in favor because they only considered the original judgement. Mainly they were concerned about whether the original judge (Judge Greer... *spit*) followed "procedure" or not and whether there was any basis for overturning his ruling on that criteria. Not one court admitted new evidence.
In two words, "God's will." When the legal scholars are done with this case, it will be exposed as a use of procedure to avoid justice.
One judge on the 11th 3 judge panel wanted to save Terri. And we know at least 2 out of the full panel of 12 did too. That's it. I can't understand it nor explain it.
My 3 grown sons were home today. All single, 2 still in college. Busy lives....and we talked about Terri a lot, today. They were all stunned. Had only heard vaguely about her. My 23 yr. old kept saying, "what am I missing here? We don't starve disabled people to death, do we?"
They all proudly voted for Bush. We're a conservative Catholic family. I think we're pretty typical of most Republicans......but now we all are questioning. What is going on?