Actually, they didn't.
I'm just to sick of this whole mess to go back and look through my posts for the last week, but the Florida statutes Chapter 765 legally defines 'PVS' as a state of unconsciousness.... which Terri wasn't.
I know .. but the doctors were saying that even though she had her eyes open and smiled when her mother came in - she was really unconscious.
If people buy that they are deceived.
Terri wasn't unconscious or PVS... however, the Schindlers' first attorney apparently got them to agree to stipulate that Terri was in PVS. Looking back, this was probably, unfortunately, their biggest error. I'm not saying that Greer, Felos, Schiavo & company were correct... just that the Schindlers were outmaneuvered.