nope, just pointing out that he was reelected to office.
The public just does not care.
The fact is that you have to be a lawyer for five years and a resident of the jurisdiction you want to run in. This means as a practical matter no serious lawyer runs against a sitting judge. There is the occasional kook who gets about the 20% anyone-but-incumbants vote, but they are nothing worth mentioning.
The two FL SC judges who ran for retention (iow no opposition just “should we keep them” incumbant protection sceme) after the 2000, did not even bother with a campaign beyond a few puff pieces in professional journals.
People just don’t care. Not approve or disapproval on this issue. They do not care at all.
Perhaps the public was not given the factual information about the case. I know that is at least a part of it. I wonder how the public would view it in this context of actually what happened?.....and this is by no means a complete list of transgressions.
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Let's take a look at what Greer did:
He blindly accepted the word of three Schiavos and ignored every one of Terri's friends and her immediate family.
He rejected all testimony from all of Terri's past caregivers and all other professional affidavits in her defense.
He put a non-terminal patient in a hospice for 5 years which is illegal to do - plus approved Medicaid payments for some of her care to boot.
He never seen Terri in person.
He wouldn't let her have her own attorney.
He denied requests that she appear in his court.
He denied requests for swallowing tests that have not been done since 1992.
He denied requests for neurological testing with state of the art modern techniques.
He not only ordered the removal of her feeding tube, he also ordered that she receive no water or nutrition by mouth.
All of the above rulings by Greer were in lock step of what Michael Schiavo and George Felos wanted. George Felos attorneys fees were incidentally paid with Terri's rehabilitation trust fund money that was never spent for her rehabilitation, which was awarded by a jury based on Michael Schiavo's false testimony apparently.
Jan Govan is brilliant compared to Greer, a former zoning commissioner who we can thank for all the T & A bars all over Pinellas. We can thank Greer for the density in Pinellas Cty. He knew zilch about probate and got lucky in 1993 cuz nobody was running so he slipped right in. He even admitted he didn’t know about probate. That’s why he was so easily manipulated and why he was reversed 2/3 on appeal. He didn’t get reversed on Terri cuz the agenda was way beyond J. Greer’s pay grade. He gets to be the face of her barbaric death though - until all the truth comes out.