[Gondring]

I pressed Mr. McCabe, the state attorney. If there's no evidence that a crime has been committed, I asked, then what is the purpose of the inquiry?

"My purpose," he said, "is simply to respond to the emperorgovernor. The governor's asked me to do something, and I'm going to try to do it."

And it's worth hounding a man who has lost his wife and has no evidence of having committed a crime...as long as it responds to the governor's whim. What happened to America where we fought back when government tried to harass people without charges? What happened to innocent til proved guilty?

[NicknamedBob]

"No evidence of a crime" is not the same thing as evidence of no crime.

If Michael truly believed that Terri was no longer present in her body, why should he care whether her parents wanted to waste their lives tending to a corpse?

In truth, she was not dead enough to suit him. And if he had that attitude this year, what kind of attitude did he have fifteen years ago?

"What happened to innocent til proved guilty?"

What was Terri's crime that she should be condemned to torturous death?

Michael may have the right to scuttle away, and hide in dark shadows. But casting him as the victim? No way.

[Politicalmom]

Oh, wah. He "lost his wife". Just like the Menendez brothers wanted sympathy for their "orphaned" status.

He's a foul murderer.

[AndyTheBear]

And it's worth hounding a man who has lost his wife and has no evidence of having committed a crime...

Do you think he lost her when her brain was injured, or over the years when she got worse for lack of the therapy he forbade, or when he finally had what was left of her destroyed?

In fact, he didn't lose his wife. He kept legal custody of that property until he got permission to have it destroyed. By that time she wasn't really an actual wife, other than in as a legal fiction. The woman he had a family with was his real wife at that point.