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To: Future Useless Eater
All you are doing is quoting Judge Greer's 'facts' to me from the subset of court records that he accepted.... His reasons and rationale were sick,...based on the opinionated 51%-of-the-evidence (after his filtering), judgement of fact by a single man.

Some lies are fibs, some are little white lies, some are just plain lies and some are whoppers. You have entered the zone of elephantine lies.

There is no "subset" of court records. Everything has been preserved and reviewed. Over 40 judges on 5 courts in 15 appellate reviews over 7 years have reviewed Judge Greer's handling and none have found any defect in procedure, none have found any insufficiency of evidence supporting every part of his findings (a most typical basis for a retrial). There was no exclusion of any evidence the parents wanted to present.

His judgment was not based on 51% of the evidence (known as the preponderance of the evidence standard) but on the 'clear and convincing evidence' standard -- the highest standard applied in civil matters. Here is what a unanimous Court of Appeal said after reviewing the record of the trial and Judge Greer's handling of it:

In the final analysis, the difficult question that faced the trial court was whether Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo, not after a few weeks in a coma, but after ten years in a persistent vegetative state that has robbed her of most of her cerebrum and all but the most instinctive of neurological functions, with no hope of a medical cure but with sufficient money and strength of body to live indefinitely, would choose to continue the constant nursing care and the supporting tubes in hopes that a miracle would somehow recreate her missing brain tissue, or whether she would wish to permit a natural death process to take its course and for her family members and loved ones to be free to continue their lives. After due consideration, we conclude that the trial judge had clear and convincing evidence to answer this question as he did.

It appears that the only "sick rationale" around here is yours.

156 posted on 04/13/2005 4:34:03 PM PDT by winstonchurchill
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To: winstonchurchill
In the final analysis, the difficult question that faced the trial court was whether Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo, not after a few weeks in a coma, but after ten years in a persistent vegetative state that has robbed her of most of her cerebrum and all but the most instinctive of neurological functions, with no hope of a medical cure

It has always been a pleasure for me to post this video of Terri for people of such eloquent speech.

Terri with her father Video after 10 years of NO THERAPY

161 posted on 04/13/2005 4:45:46 PM PDT by bjs1779 ( I have heard her say “mommy” from time to time, & “momma,”& "also said “help me” Cna H. Law '97)
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To: winstonchurchill

all that typing for nothing. wow! I feel soooooooo sad for you.


163 posted on 04/13/2005 4:54:24 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater (FreedomLoving_Engineer) (It was wrong to kill her. No other "facts" matter.-JimRobinson)
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To: winstonchurchill
I have received no respose to this yet.

Terri with her father Video after 10 years of NO THERAPY

196 posted on 04/13/2005 7:31:20 PM PDT by bjs1779 ( I have heard her say “mommy” from time to time, & “momma,”& "also said “help me” Cna H. Law '97)
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