Here's an interesting article I found through an Alexa search:
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usschi153221372apr15,0,5890294.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
It seems there was a guardian ad litem appointed at one time. Here is an excerpt:
In June 1998, soon after Michael asked the court for permission to remove Terri's feeding tube, the court appointed Richard Pearse as Terri's guardian ad litem. His job was to investigate the facts of Terri's case and represent her interests in court.
At the 2000 trial, Pearse concluded that he had not found clear and convincing evidence that Terri would have rejected life support.
Pearse said he was troubled by the fact that Michael waited until 1998 to petition to remove the feeding tube, even though he claims to have known her wishes all along, and that he waited until he won a malpractice suit based on a professed desire to take care of her into old age. As her husband, Michael would inherit what is left of her malpractice award, originally $700,000, which is held in a trust fund administered by the court. Accounting of the fund is sealed. But Michael's lawyer, George Felos, said most of it has been spent on legal fees associated with the custody dispute.
Here is a link to a pdf file of Pearse's affidavit:
http://host85.ipowerweb.com/~friendso/guardian.pdf
Also, here is some interesting info on what Michael knew about Terri's wishes:
The Schindlers had contacted a woman Michael dated in 1991 who told them Michael had confessed to her he did not know what Terri would want. Although the woman refused to sign an affidavit, it bought the Schindlers some time. And with it, they found Trudy Capone. A former co-worker of Michael's, Capone signed an affidavit on May 9, 2001, stating "Michael confided in me all the time about Terri ... He said to me many times that he had no idea what her wishes were."
And testimony from a close friend of Terri's:
One of Terri's childhood friends, Diane Meyer, testified that Terri once uncharacteristically lost her temper when Meyer told a joke about Karen Quinlan. "What is the state vegetable of New Jersey?" Meyer asked Terri in the summer of 1982. The punch line was "Karen Ann Quinlan." "She said the joke wasn't funny and did not approve of what was going on in the Quinlan case," Meyer testified, referring to the legal battle to remove the woman from life support. "I remember one of the things she said is, 'How did they know she would want this?'"
Actually, I was doing a search on Judge Greer when I found this stuff. Still looking for that smoking gun. WHY IS GREER SO BENT ON KILLING HER??
Unbelievable!!! This makes Greer look even worse, why isn't this info more widely known? And why is Pearse no longer her guardian?
Has the Hospice Avoided the Appearance of a Conflict of Interests? I guess the answer to that depends upon who you ask. We note that attorney George Felos is certainly not "unassociated" with the hospice and its board of directors. But did you know that Judge Greer, the judge in this case, was a Pinellas County commissioner for the county back in 1984 through 1992. Guess who also was a county commisioner from 1984 onwards? Hospice Board member Barbara Sheen Todd was elected Pinellas County commisioner back in 1980 and has served in public office since that time, being re-elected several times. It is certain that for the eight years Judge Greer was a county commissioner, he certainly knew hospice board of directors member Barbara Sheen Todd quite well.
This comes from www.hospicepatients.org/A-willingness-to-kill.html -- an article that I found incredibly interesting.
Yes! What happened to this guy? And why did the judge ignore everything he said?