[Jim Robinson]

"To break the tie, Greer engaged a fifth neurologist, Dr Ronald Cranford. He is well spoken and highly convincing. He is also a spokesman for the right-to-die movement. His testimony tilted the scales."

Bastards!

[Miss Behave]

I echo that, JimRob.

[onyx]

According to Time magazine's investigative reporter
interviewed by Bill O'Reilly tonight, Judge Greer placed
more weight on the examination and determinations made by
the neurologist from Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Bambakidis, who
the Time reporter said was a neutral party: (not hired by Michael or the parents).

[Critter]

Hey! The big cheese chimes in!

The sick part of all this is that a life is taken because the parents didn't get the right people, not that they didn't have a case. There's something wrong with that.

I matters concerning life and death, do overs should be automatic. They are in capital murder cases.

Heck even kindergarten kids playing baseball have the sense to know that a do over is preferable to seeing a game won or lost on a questionable play.

[Finalapproach29er]

I think when she passes, a sense of shame will set in among some who wanted her gone.

These doctors/legal slimeballs might not be too popular next week at their country club.

Just a thought.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Cranford is bastards? He is bastard, in the singular.

[Just mythoughts]

BIG TIME BUMP, voice of sanity!!!!!!

[Trinity_Tx]

"To break the tie, Greer engaged a fifth neurologist, Dr Ronald Cranford. He is well spoken and highly convincing. He is also a spokesman for the right-to-die movement. His testimony tilted the scales."

"Bastards!"

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He would be a Bastard if it were true, Jim. Cranford is a scary man.

But, like half the other stuff reported that's getting everyone so up in arms, it is not true.

Greer selected Bambakadis to be the tie-breaker, and his testimony shows he isn't a follower.

Cranford's bias was too clear for his testimony to have tilted the scales. In my opinion, the most guilty party in that trial was Pat Anderson, or whoever it was, who chose Maxwell and Hammesfahr to testify for the Schindlers when the court gave them that one precious opportunity to prove she wasn't PVS.

Maxwell is an alternative medicine radiologist who couldn't distinguish between coma and PVS. he would have been OK as a second choice, maybe, but Hammesfahr was a deal-breaker.

He's an alternative medicine neurologist, who still tries to pass himself off as a Nobel Prize Nominee, is listed at quackwatch.com, advertised in National Enquirer, and equivocated, if not worse, throughout his testimony.

Even Glenn Beck, a major supporter of the Schindlers, dumped him mid-interview and apologized to his listeners because the man is such an obvious huckster. (more on my profile for the curious)

Pat Anderson (if she approved him as her witness) should apologize to Terri, IMO.

What kills me, is now we will never know what reputable doctors would have said, had they been given the chance.

If you ever get bored, I uploaded the full 900+ transcripts here.

[pickyourpoison]

his comment is # 2

[agrace]

Please permit me to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for your tolerance of the many Terri threads of the past few weeks. To you and all FR admin - I'm sure I speak for a whole bunch of people when I say thank you very much.

[MarMema]

Bastards!

Evil bottomfeeders who worship death.

[Nowhere Man]

Bastards!

That's a big 10-4!!! I'll call and raise you to what Charles Dickens said in "Oliver Twist" where Mr. Bumble said, "the law is an ass." I want to thank you also in the leniency in us discussing the Terry Schindler case, what happened is wrong, period.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The solution to the tyranny of the JUDICIAL OLIGARCHS is to get candidates in Republican executive branch primaries to promise to do what Jeb Bush refused to do - to use the constitutional power the executive holds equal to the other two branches to NULLIFY unconstitutional laws and judicial decisions by not enforcing or countermanding them. EXECUTIVE NULLIFICATION, practiced by Presidents Jefferson and Jackson, has atrophied from disuse since the early days of the republic. The trend was set by enforcement of the widely unpopular in the north Dred Scot decision (1857) by a northern Democrat president (Buchanan) who was friendly to slavery which led to civil war. Plessy and the busing cases after Brown were equally unconstitutional as was removing prayer from schools, but we all had to bow and scrape because we have been led to believe the courts were the final word, no matter how wrong and unjust.

We should not fear that Democrat presidents and governors would do the same. Errors by chief executives are only until the next election. Errors by the Supreme Court are for the lives of the justices and often beyond through stare decisis and the interest of members of the courts, regardless of by whom appointed, to conserve and accrue their own power.

It is interesting to note that when Judge Greer enlisted the willing assistance of the Pinellas County Sheriff's executive police power for enforcement of his concentration camp which Governor Bush used as and excuse for not acting because of a possible armed conflict that Governor Bush had the Florida constitutional power to resolve the dispute in his favor by suspending and replacing both the sheriff and Judge Greer for interfering with the lawful duties of the Department of Children and Families but he did not use it.

FLORIDA CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE VIII - County Government
Section 1
(d) COUNTY OFFICERS. There shall be elected by the electors of each county, for terms of four years, a sheriff, a tax collector, a property appraiser, a supervisor of elections, and a clerk of the circuit court;

ARTICLE IV - Executive
SECTION 7. Suspensions; filling office during suspensions.--
(a) By executive order stating the grounds and filed with the custodian of state records, the governor may suspend from office any state officer not subject to impeachment, any officer of the militia not in the active service of the United States, or any county officer, for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, drunkenness, incompetence, permanent inability to perform official duties, or commission of a felony, and may fill the office by appointment for the period of suspension. The suspended officer may at any time before removal be reinstated by the governor.

ARTICLE III - Legislative
SECTION 17. Impeachment.--
(a) The governor, lieutenant governor, members of the cabinet, justices of the supreme court, judges of district courts of appeal, judges of circuit courts, and judges of county courts shall be liable to impeachment for misdemeanor in office.

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Three threads (mine) that should come to everyone's attention are these:

Why Judicial Appointments Do NOT Matter (Schiavo)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1371395/posts

OPEN LETTER TO HUGH HEWITT RE: TERRI SCHIAVO and the JUDICIAL OLIGARCHY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1368633/posts

SCHIAVO v. SCHIAVO - "Conservative" Judge Birch Proclaims JUDICIAL OLIGARCHY (full opinion)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1374897/posts

A point which I drew from this last one is in my comment after the judge's opinion:

Judge Birch fails to appreciate when he states, "An act of Congress violates separation of powers if it requires federal courts to exercise their Article III power “in a manner repugnant to the text, structure, and traditions of Article III."[" - ] that that necessarily implies that Congress and the President are likewise not bound by decisions of the courts that conflict or usurp their Article I and II powers or are repugnant to the plain language of other parts of the Constitution they are sworn to uphold and enforce. It is more evidence that judicial appointments of the "right temperament" will not curb the excesses of the courts as the position of all-powerful judge seems to corrupt absolutely in the absence of will and true independent action of the other supposedly separate and equal branches.