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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: SmoothTalker

Feeding tubes ARE NOT "life support" they provide food and liquid. They have been used successfully for thousands of years, the only drawbacks in the past were from infection; however the development of antibiotics has taken care of this. Terri was killed for money, to advance an agenda and possibly to obstruct justice.

http://ncp.aspenjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/6/626
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/29/Tampabay/Feeding_tubes_snake_t.shtml


21 posted on 01/06/2007 6:35:00 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: SmoothTalker

Are you saying that they DIDN'T claim she was experiencing euphoria?


22 posted on 01/06/2007 6:36:15 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: AmishDude

Not to mention the fact that the hearsay wasn't recalled until years after the fact.


23 posted on 01/06/2007 6:37:43 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee

See my tagline. Greer is a pathetic excuse for walking skin. Hopefully, he'll die the same "beautiful" death that Terri got.


24 posted on 01/06/2007 6:45:18 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: DustyMoment

LMAO!


25 posted on 01/06/2007 6:46:05 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: SteveMcKing

and all I can say to that is that Greer will have to face the ultimate judge in the afterlife and I wonder just what Christ plans to say to hi, or better yet, do to him.


26 posted on 01/06/2007 7:02:33 PM PST by Halls (God, please grant me the serenity to accept what I can not change....)
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To: floriduh voter

PING


27 posted on 01/06/2007 7:03:13 PM PST by Halls (God, please grant me the serenity to accept what I can not change....)
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To: srmorton
Do you think you deserve a different judgment

His day of judgment will come in the next.

28 posted on 01/06/2007 7:28:25 PM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

What in the heck do you mean by that statement???


29 posted on 01/06/2007 7:55:30 PM PST by srmorton (Choose life!)
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To: highball

Judge Greer exercised veto power over Terri Schiavo's medical decisions, and over the jury's decision. He overturned the jury's decision to award the money for Terri's care. He diverted those funds to her estranged husband and his lawyers, for the purpose of overturning Terri's medical decisions.

The state also vetoed Terri's medical decisions. They were charged with upholding her rights, but they trampled all over them.

I do not believe the state, or any government agency, has the right to overturn any citizen's constitutional rights.

Judge Greer is speaking out in favor of the jury system, while standing by his right to break numerous laws in the process of overturning that very system.


30 posted on 01/06/2007 11:09:30 PM PST by BykrBayb (Be careful what you ask for, and even more careful what you demand. Þ)
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To: srmorton

We will all be judged on our own merits. I'm glad I won't be judged for a murder committed by others.


31 posted on 01/06/2007 11:12:22 PM PST by BykrBayb (Be careful what you ask for, and even more careful what you demand. Þ)
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To: wagglebee

This is ridiculous! Greer overturned the jury's decision to award money for Terri's care. He turned that money over to her estranged husband and his lawyers, to pay the costs of killing her. He tried her for what he deemed to be a capital offense, denied her a jury trial, found her guilty, and ordered her execution. Now all of a sudden he believes in the jury system? LOL


32 posted on 01/06/2007 11:41:44 PM PST by BykrBayb (Be careful what you ask for, and even more careful what you demand. Þ)
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To: Calpernia; Velveeta; LucyT; DAVEY CROCKETT

ping


33 posted on 01/07/2007 4:01:01 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny
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To: BykrBayb
I do not believe the state, or any government agency, has the right to overturn any citizen's constitutional rights.

That's very cute rhetoric, but it isn't what happened here.

The state didn't make the medical decisions. Her husband did, as is his right and his obligation. That you don't like the decisions he eventually made does not justify sophistry.

34 posted on 01/07/2007 4:29:15 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
Pinged from Terri Dailies

8mm


35 posted on 01/07/2007 4:32:48 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: wagglebee

I really believe that if you sell your soul to the Devil you do get benefits here on earth. Look at certain politicians.

However - and this is a BIG however - a day of reckoning will come in the next life.

What is the length of a man's life compared to eternity?


36 posted on 01/07/2007 4:52:20 AM PST by GadareneDemoniac
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To: highball
>> The state didn't make the medical decisions. Her husband did, as is his right and his obligation.

A guardian may not make medical decisions for his ward, nor can any guardian make a decision that would cause death or harm to the ward. There are exceptions for guardians who are qualified physicians, but the rule is, guardians are not permitted to practice medicine.

The whole case was framed on the ludicrous fiction that Terri made the decision, as is her right (to refuse treatment). The feeding tube was added by law to life-prolonging devices AFTER Terri's injury, so she could not possibly have given informed consent.

37 posted on 01/07/2007 5:24:13 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: SteveMcKing
>> First he killed her, now he's making money off of her.

Waal, he made a heckuva lot of money off her before he killed her, too. Other than that, I have no quibble with your comment :-)

He did surely kill her (instead of letting her go with a divorce) in order to keep her potentially multi-million dollar estate.

I wonder what Jodi's estate is worth.

38 posted on 01/07/2007 5:32:48 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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To: GadareneDemoniac
>> I really believe that if you sell your soul to the Devil you do get benefits here on earth

That would account for a great deal, wouldn't it?

39 posted on 01/07/2007 5:38:14 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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