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Terri Schiavo Judge George Greer to Speak at Jury Trial Conference
Life News ^ | 1/5/07 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 01/06/2007 5:52:57 PM PST by wagglebee

Dallas, TX (LifeNews.com) -- Judge George Greer continues to travel the lecture circuit despite his controversial ruling allowing Terri Schiavo's former husband to kill her via euthanasia. Greer is slated to speak at a national summit concerning jury trials, even though he unilaterally allowed the taking of Terri's life without a jury deliberation.

Greer will be one of the speakers at next month's National Jury Summit hosted by the American Board of Trial Advocates.

The conference is an opportunity for legal experts to discuss the threats to the jury system.

The presentations will deal with the civil jury system, factors causing its deterioration, the benefits of preserving the jury trial, and what changes are needed to bring about recovery.

ABTA lists Judge Greer as the first in the line of speakers at the conference.

According to a press release of the event LifeNews.com obtained, ABTA says Greer "will address judicial independence and the civil jury system. He will discuss how the Terri Schiavo case and other recent events impact and damage the civil jury system in America."

Despite Greer's condemning Terri to a painful 13-day starvation and dehydration death, Greer was also a featured speaker at Loyola Law School Los Angeles last June.

There, Greer instructed members of the mainstream media in how to report on significant legal stories like the battle over Terri's life.

According to a statement from the school provided to LifeNews.com, Greer served on the faculty of the inaugural "Journalist Law School" at Loyola. The journalist law school was a three day long intensive seminar for reporters who write on the government, the courts, and individual court cases.

Journalists from CNN, CBS News, ABC News Radio, Bloomberg WNBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution attended the conference.

Greer also previously came under fire for speaking engagements at a bioethics forum at the University of Pennsylvania and a local Bar Association event in Florida.

Terri's brother Bobby Schindler has said that his family saw Greer's "pro-euthanasia, pro-death bias" for years during the legal battle and indicated the bias "tempered his decisions in my sister's case and caused him to unethically, immorally and illegally ordered her to die."

"How can any citizens of Florida have confidence that Judge Greer will remain unbiased now that he is on the speaking circuit justifying the killing of an innocent, disabled woman without any proof of her consent?" Schindler asked.

Schindler said Greer's public speaking "makes a mockery of the entire judicial system" and "certainly shows his bias against the disabled."

ACTION: You can protest Greer's ABTA speaking engagement by emailing ABTA Executive Director Brian Tyson at briant@abota.org. You can also contact the group at: American Board of Trial Advocates, 2001 Bryan Street, Dallas, TX 75201, or call (800) 932-2682 or fax a letter to 214-871-6025.

Related web sites: Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cultureofdeath; georgegreer; greer; moralabsolutes; schiavo; terrischaivo; terrischiavo
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
>> Parents and siblings are blood family... spouses are not...

The more annoying that the only testimony Greer allowed in mind-reading Terri's "wishes" was by the IN-LAWS -- Michael Schiavo, his brother Scott Schiavo, his SIL Joan Schiavo.

All of whom conferred first with Michael's lawyer, George Felos.

After private meetings with Felos, they all remembered bits of conversation that had been forgotten for eight and ten years. Amazing. And all these snippets of hearsay fit the most up-to-date version of right-to-die privacy law. More amazing! Sheesh, a plot line this bad would get rejected by afternoon soap operas.

Greer disallowed testimony from Terri's father, mother, brother, sister, best friends and priest.

141 posted on 01/08/2007 7:40:50 PM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
>> that would still make it a homicide.

Yes.

If I were DA, I think I would have gone for voluntary manslaughter. Or whatever is appropriate for "assault causing death."

There is quite a lot of material about Michael giving insights into his personality. The material shaped my scenario, but let's save that discussion for another occasion :-)

142 posted on 01/08/2007 7:53:47 PM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
One little afterword, if I may. We have visitors who haven't come to grips with the fact that domestic violence is the #1 cause of injury and death in young women. That makes it the first thing to suspect when trying to explain how a healthy young woman, age 26, probably asleep, ended up face down on the hallway floor, in cardiac arrest and near death, right after her husband came home late one Saturday night.

Nobody has ever explained how this happened, and medical testing found no natural causes. The autopsy report ruled out bulimia and that was Michael's only alibi. I ask our visitors for their assistance solving this mystery, but only one has even replied and that poster had no facts at all.

I also put my own reconstruction out for comment and nobody has yet refuted any point on it. The injuries I mention and the abnormal blood tests are all from evidentiary medical records. The fight between Terri and Michael was conceded by both sides of the family and was known to friends, one of whom urged Terri to spend the night with her for safety sake. Terri might be alive and well today, had she accepted. (Btw, Michael lied about the fight to the police when they arrived. He told them that everything was untroubled and rosy between him and Terri.)

It's theory, no more, no less. I'll amend the thing if someone can show me better, and I'll scrap it if someone can disprove it. If you find any holes in it, fire away. But for the moment, it's the only theory out there that fits ALL the known medical facts. That's extremely difficult to do. In fact, nobody offers any other theory at all any more.

So, visitors, refute it if you can. Suggest something better if you can. Whatever did happen that night must color our view of everything else that occurred. If it turns out that Michael himself caused Terri's injuries, one cannot still sympathize with his efforts later to finish her off. After you know Michael injured her in the first place, you cannot go on believing his whopper that he's only killing Terri because she wants to die. Neither can one go on applauding "due process" when you realize it covering up a murder.

143 posted on 01/08/2007 10:07:44 PM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood; All
Truth and principle should supersede politics. Terri was supported by left and right, atheists and believers. One of the best was Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice, dean of American civil rights writers, an atheist. He followed the case for years and knew the facts and fine print intimately. Here is one of his columns -- written while Terri was being executed.

TERRI SCHIAVO: JUDICIAL MURDER / Her crime was being disabled, voiceless, and at the disposal of our media

...we have watched as this woman, whose only crime is that she is disabled, is tortured to death by judges, all the way to the Supreme Court.

And keep in mind from the Ralph Nader-Wesley Smith report: "The courts . . . have [also] ordered that no attempts be made to provide her water or food by mouth. Terri swallows her own saliva. Spoon feeding is not medical treatment. This outrageous order proves that the courts are not merely permitting medical treatment to be withheld, they have ordered her to be made dead."

In this country, even condemned serial killers are not executed in this way.

144 posted on 01/09/2007 5:46:08 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: EternalVigilance
You -- and Dr. Keyes, for that matter -- might like to read this eye-opening essay by law professor Gary Amos. If ever the overreach of the judicial oligarchy has been brought into view, it is here, and it is through the Terri Schiavo case.

The Federal Government, via the 14th Amendment, had the duty and power to intervene in a state procedure that threatened the rights of a citizen (Terri). (As Dr. Keyes pointed out, Florida's constituion is particularly good in guaranteeing Terri's life, but the Florida judiciary stomped on that.) In failing to protect Terri, Congress and the high courts essentially gutted the 14th Amendment (not that there was much left of it). We are back to Dred Scott and the Fugitive Slave Law -- only this time, Terri was the disposable chattel property rather than Dred Scott. Amos charges every concurring judge, including every member of SCOTUS, with being "accessories to murder."

Dred Scott and Terri Schiavo The Long and Tortured Death of the 14th Amendment At the Hands of the Federal Judiciary

Further comments, thoughts and backgrounding by Gary Amos are posted HERE

145 posted on 01/09/2007 6:12:09 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: EternalVigilance
>> Talking about due process in the Terri Schiavo situation is mixing apples and oranges. Since there is no state power to take her life in the first place, any action or procedure in that regard is tyrannical by definition, and it is abysmally ignorant for people to interject due process into the discussion as a justification for state sanctioned homicide. -- Prof. Gary Amos

Abysmal ignorance happens.

146 posted on 01/09/2007 6:22:18 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
"Privacy" is not found anywhere in the United States Constitution...

Try the Ninth Amendment.

So you would exempt nothing in a marriage from the control of the State? Really?

Sexual practices, choices in how to raise their children, all of those are fair game if the State at any time should decide to regulate them?

147 posted on 01/09/2007 6:44:38 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: wagglebee
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,

3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

[Matthew 18:2-3, KJV]

Below, a photo of the defenders of wife-murder courageously arresting and handcuffing a child for the "crime" of taking water to Terri as she was dying of thirst.


148 posted on 01/09/2007 6:53:08 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: highball
>> "Privacy" is not found anywhere in the United States Constitution...

> Try the Ninth Amendment.

OK, I tried the 9th amendment. Here it is:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Privacy is not mentioned, is it? Keep searching.

149 posted on 01/09/2007 7:00:39 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: highball
Try the Ninth Amendment.

The word "privacy" is not in there anywhere...

It was landmark U.S. Supreme Court precedent Reynolds v. United States in 1878 that made “separation of church and state” a dubiously legitimate point of case law, but more importantly; it confirmed the Constitutionality in statutory regulation of marriage practices.

No man can become a law unto himself under the guise of freedom of religion. We do have a right to regulate practice, not belief. Marriage is a religious rite, not a civil right.

We are not like the Islamics where a woman and her children are chattel slaves subject to injury or murder at the whims of the husband.

150 posted on 01/09/2007 7:03:11 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: highball

Can you show us an enumerated power to execute a woman convicted of no crime?


151 posted on 01/09/2007 7:06:16 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: T'wit

Tagline practice, particular for right-to-die advocates visiting to Terri threads...


152 posted on 01/09/2007 8:38:03 AM PST by T'wit (The good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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To: T'wit
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Privacy is not mentioned, is it? Keep searching.

Wow. Reading comprehension not high on your school's list of priorities, is it? Let's look at that again.

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Pretty clear - just because some of our rights are named in the Bill of Rights does not mean that all of our rights may be found there.

The Constitution is not a list of rights. Never has been.

Some of the Founders were against the idea of a Bill of Rights on principle, fearing that the existence of any listing at all would lead some to infer that the small list was exhaustive. Sadly, they have been proven correct.

153 posted on 01/09/2007 8:47:51 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: highball
>> Pretty clear - just because some of our rights are named in the Bill of Rights does not mean that all of our rights may be found there.

Duh. But does this say privacy IS a right? No, it does not. It simply says that privacy MAY BE a right; and that an infinite number of other things MAY BE rights too. That says nothing. An infinite number of rights is legally and intellectually absurd. Ergo, we are right back where we started from. It's not in the Constitution.

You still need a positive legal authority for claiming a specific privacy right. What is your authority for this? We already know it is not enumerated in the Constitution, just as Sir Francis asserted.

154 posted on 01/09/2007 9:34:50 AM PST by T'wit (The good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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To: highball
>> Wow. Reading comprehension not high on your school's list of priorities, is it?

Knock off the garbage talk.

155 posted on 01/09/2007 9:36:25 AM PST by T'wit (The good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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To: highball

Is the right to murder an inconvenient wife also covered by the 9th Amendment? It's not in the Constitution proper.


156 posted on 01/09/2007 9:42:39 AM PST by T'wit (The good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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To: T'wit
You still need a positive legal authority for claiming a specific privacy right. What is your authority for this? We already know it is not enumerated in the Constitution, just as Sir Francis asserted.

You've got it backwards - the state needs a compelling reason to insert itself, or the right is retained by a citizen (and once again, lack of enumeration in the Constitution is explictly not an indication that something is not a right).

What is the state's compelling interest in inserting itself in family decisions about legitimate, established courses of medical treatment?

157 posted on 01/09/2007 9:55:38 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: highball
>> You've got it backwards

I kinda wish I did. I don't want the state butting in either. But the state has already asserted a claim on patients' lives (sometimes they pay taxes, y'know). The privacy right to refuse treatment must have some real authority to supersede the state's claim. It can't simply be one of an infinite number of inchoate "rights" that one can make up at one's convenience. By that standard, your right to privacy would be equal to, no better than, no worse than, your right to feed my wife catnip (which, I'm sorry to tell you, doesn't work). All the 9th Amendment does is not rule out either of them, or zillions of others.

The 9th Amendment doesn't establish anything to be a right. It says what it says -- some things are permitted to be rights even if not covered here. What those rights might be remains an open question. It is to be settled by further legalities later on. Therefore we still need an authority for a specific privacy right so compelling that it overrules the existing state and federal claim to protect the patient's life (fifth and fourteenth amendments of the federal constitution).

158 posted on 01/09/2007 10:52:17 AM PST by T'wit (The good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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To: highball
>> What is the state's compelling interest in inserting itself in family decisions about legitimate, established courses of medical treatment?

You're preaching to the choir :-)

Keep in mind that killing your wife is not "treatment" under any definition.

159 posted on 01/09/2007 10:57:34 AM PST by T'wit (The good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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To: highball
And as long as you're in the neighborhood, I invite you to offer your theory of what happened to Terri in the first place? How did she go from healthy and asleep to face-down on the hallway floor, in cardiac arrest and brain damaged, right after her husband got home from work late on a Saturday night? How did she get the compression fracture to her spine, the fractured ribs and the bone bruise on her right femur? The hypokalemia and lactic acidosis revealed in the ER blood tests?

The answer may shed a great deal of light on the husband's asserted right to kill her later on. It doesn't look so hot when, in one's zeal to score a political point, one goes to bat for a Scott Peterson or an O.J. Simpson. In this case, there is a very real possibility that Michael Schiavo will confess someday to injuring Terri, and a greater possibility that one of his accomplices (there are many) will talk. That would leave egg all over a lot of faces.

160 posted on 01/09/2007 11:09:04 AM PST by T'wit (The good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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