Posted on 01/05/2004 1:42:20 PM PST by cpforlife.org
This is a Hospice Patients Alliance Special Update Jan 5, 2004, sent out periodically to inform the public about news affecting hospice and end-of-life care.
We have just confirmed that ALL of Judge Baird's cases, INCLUDING the suit by Michael Schiavo v Gov Bush related to the Terri's Law, challenging its constitutionality, HAVE been transferred to Judge Nelly Khouzam. This information came directly from Judge Khouzam's assistant. Judge Khouzam is known to be a "by the book" tough, but fair judge.
For a little about Judge Khouzam see:
"Diminutive judge sits tall behind the gavel" Northpinellas St Petersburg Times 12/29/2002 http://www.sptimes.com/2002/12/29/NorthPinellas/Diminutive_judge_sits.shtml
The court is NOT explaining why the judges were suddenly switched, except to say that "judges rotate from time to time." We believe it might have something to do with:
Local PINELLAS COUNTY COURT BAILIFFS AND COURT EMPLOYEES WERE TAKING BETS ON WHETHER TERRI WOULD DIE OR NOT!!!
It was widely reported that Judge Baird made reckless and prejudicial comments in support of Greer and Felos and against Jeb's lawyers way before he had heard the evidence from the Governor's attorneys.
In other words, Judge Baird's comments are the likely reason local Pinellas County employees were doing "inside betting" that the local Pinellas County Judges would back each other's poor and constitutionally illegal decisions against Terri's constitutional rights and thus overrule Jeb Bush and Terri's Law. The 6th Circuit Judges are upset to have anyone tell them they are morally and legally wrong...... whether it's constitutionally illegal or not to murder Terri.
Conducting inside betting on the case is a severe violation of the code of conduct for court employees! Whether that is, or is not, the reason the judges have been switched, the very important change in judge can be extremely significant to what happens to Terri. We are hoping that Judge Khouzam will give the Gov a fair hearing in the case and allow the discovery he sought (which was denied by Baird). If Judge Khouzam allows some discovery as requested by Gov Bush, it could make all the difference!
You heard it hear first!
Ron Panzer President, Hospice Patients Alliance http://www.hospicepatients.org
"Why, what a piece of hogwash. MS as her duly established legal representative could have lodged a complaint against himself!" [sarcasm, but this makes about as much sense as the rest of the kill-terri drive]
I would further posit that if there was a possibility that later actions were committed with the intention of covering up earlier crimes, then even if the crimes themselves could not be prosecuted under the statute of limitations, they could if proven help to prove criminal motive for later actions whose statute of limitations has not yet elapsed.
If evidence could be produced to show that Michael Schiavo had reason to believe that evidence would eventually come to light that would land him in prison unless Terri died first, that could very likely convince a jury that his earlier attempts to kill Terri constitute attempted murder most foul.
Your 197 says it all!
1. The knee info is contained in the Hospital record which was posted to this site and can also be found in the documents available at terrisfight.org
2. The FDLE info was also posted to this site and was (and presumeably still) available at the St. Petersburg Times.
3. The midline reference is made in the police report and is available at the terrisfight.org site. The officer obtained this info from the hospital.
4. See the police report.
5. To my knowlege the ER did not contact law enforcement. According to the record, emergency services contacted law enforcement soley because of the age of the victim. It is considered unusual to find a person as young as Terri suffering a cardiac arrest. This reference can also be found in the documents from terrisfight.org.
As I said above, all of these documents have been posted here at FR. I have revealed nothing new. All of these facts are well known and some of us have tried to point them out before. I posted info that Terri's potassium level was below 2.7 mEq/L (the lowest level considered to be within normal limits) upon admisssion and was viciously attacked on these threads. One attacker was an "official" with the Terri's Fight organization. When the Hospital pdf was made available, it indicated that the potassium level was actually less than 2.0 mEq/L despite the protestations of the "Terri organization".
I do not intend this as a criticism, but many here in their enthusium and well-intentioned zeal, look but do not see.
CLEARWATER The family of a severely brain-damaged woman urged a judge to reappoint an independent guardian in the case to protect her from her husband, who they say wants her dead because he is engaged to another woman. In a court filing Monday, Terri Schiavo's family also asked Pinellas-Pasco Chief Circuit Judge David A. Demers to let guardian ad litem Jay Wolfson determine whether Michael and Terri Schiavo's marriage can be dissolved and to let him oversee swallowing tests to determine if she can eat on her own. Demers discharged Wolfson Dec. 17 after the court-appointed advocate filed an investigatory report he was appointed to do. Gov. Jeb Bush and Terri Schiavo's family have now asked Demers to reinstate Wolfson so he can continue to monitor the situation and gather more information. Michael Schiavo, who is Terri's legal guardian, opposes the reappointment. His attorney, George Felos, said in a filing Monday that Wolfson already completed the investigation. Felos also said Demers lacks the authority to reappoint Wolfson. Michael Schiavo denies a conflict of interest and says he is just carrying out his 40-year-old wife's wishes not to be kept alive artificially. Felos sued Bush after a bill hastily passed by the Legislature in October gave the governor authority to reinsert Terri Schiavo's feeding tube after her husband had won court permission to have it removed so she could die. The law violated Terri's constitutionally protected right to privacy, Felos contends. A judge's decision on that issue is on hold while an appeals court sorts out some related procedural matters. Michael Schiavo has battled his in-laws, Bob and Mary Schindler, for years to get court permission to withdraw the feeding tube. He convinced a judge that his wife had made statements that she would not want to be kept alive artificially. The Schindlers dispute that their daughter had any such end-of-life wishes and believe her condition could improve with therapy. Terri Schiavo collapsed in 1990 at age 26 when her heart stopped from what doctors believe was a chemical imbalance.
I normally try to avoid ad-hominem attacks, however this just ain't your day.
You are the Johnny Come Lately, not I. I have posted to the Terri threads for months. You on the other hand have logged what, 15 posts now? Hmmmmmm....who is it that really 'just showed up'? The great crusader from Tennessee?
By the way, maybe I missed it, but who appointed you spokesman for the Terri posters here? As far as I'm concerned, after reading all of your fifteen posts, you are nothing more than a pusillanimous little piss-ant without an original idea or thought and woefully behind the curve regarding the facts, non-facts and arguments in the Terri issue.
I note that you claim to be a teacher. If so it would appear that you are one of the problems in the educational system. I would suggest that as a teacher, you would be well advised to take an elementary spelling and grammar course. Your syntax and spelling- especially or possessive pronouns- is atrocious considering your claim to be a teacher.
If there is such evidence I would appreciate your opinion of what it is.
I think you are mistaken here. I believe that the bone scan was performed in 1991 but discovered by the Schindlers sometime later. Further, I dont know that the bone scan was or was not introduced in the malpractice trial, but one thing is clear, the defendants in the malpractice suit certainly had the medical records which included the bone scan.
Bear in mind the original civil trial jury saw no red-flag on MS trying to kill his wife as it is evident today, but just the opposite, looking at him as a hard luck case, so in all probability the Deep-Pocket theory was their focus instead of possible criminal behavior of the husband. Therefore your assertion that there was a jury who dealt with this bone injury business is absurd.
I would seriously take issue with your assertion that MS trying to kill his wife as it is evident today. What evidence are you alluding to? All I see is so far is rank speculation, allegations and assertions. All the bone scan reveals is an abnormal accumulation of calcium that could be from a number of conditions, including osteoporosis. Additionally, In the post that you are responding to, I never said nor did I imply that the jury either considered, make any determination, or otherwise dealt with this bone injury business. Your characterization [t]herefore your assertion that there was a jury who dealt with this bone injury business is absurd is itself absurd.
If you have info that this bone scan was indeed presented to the original civil jury D-D, then I'll challenge you to bring forth this information to us now. By default, if you fall silent, I'd take it that this is not the case, which validates the Schindlers' statement that this never came out and therefore possible criminal aspect was never considered in the first place.
I have addressed this above. You are making assumptions that the bone scan is proof that MS attacked and brutally beat Terri Schiavo on the morning of her collapse. It does not, however if it somehow can be twisted in to such proof how do you explain the complete absence of visible evidence of such a violent and ferocious beating? A beating of such magnitude that it breaks both ankles, both knees, a femur, her sacroiliac, vertebrae in her back, vertebrae in her neck ad fractures her skull without so much as leaving a mark, much less a bruise, on her body. Not one person at the time contemporaneous with Terris collapse reported any visible injury, not even Terris own brother or her own parents.
It just could be that the "bone scan did not come out" because it produced no evidence that Terri's condition was a result of any beating and was irrelevent to the cause of her collapse and subsequent brain injury.
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