Posted on 05/15/2004 8:11:04 AM PDT by amdgmary
Schiavo Appeal May Get Fast Track
The Associated Press May 15, 2004
LAKELAND - The law pushed by Gov. Jeb Bush to keep Terri Schiavo alive may be headed to the state Supreme Court. The 2nd District Court of Appeal indicated Wednesday it wants the case expedited to the high court. It gave Bush and the woman's husband 10 days to show why it should not be certified to the Supreme Court as ``a matter of great importance requiring immediate resolution by that court.''
Schiavo, who has severe brain damage, was disconnected in October from the feeding and hydration tube that has kept her alive for more than a decade. Six days later, the law pushed by Bush gave him the power to order the tube reconnected.
Pinellas Circuit Court Judge W. Douglas Baird ruled ``Terri's Law'' unconstitutional May 6, saying it violates Terri Schiavo's right to privacy and delegated legislative power to the governor. The governor's office filed an immediate appeal that kept the tube in place.
The appeals court indicated in a ruling obtained Friday that it wanted to skip a step and send the case to the high court.
Schiavo's husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, has fought a long court battle to carry out what he said were his wife's wishes not to be kept alive artificially. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, say they doubt those wishes were made and believe her condition could improve with therapy.
``We believe this case is of great public importance and should be viewed by the Florida Supreme Court,'' said George Felos, an attorney for Michael Schiavo.
The governor's legal staff will review the request to bypass the appeals court before deciding whether to oppose it, Bush spokeswoman Alia Faraj said.
Also Friday, a police investigation into suspicious marks found on Terri Schiavo's arm found no evidence of foul play.
Michael Schiavo banned all visitors from the Clearwater nursing home where she lives after an aide found what appeared to be needle marks on his wife's arms after the Schindlers visited March 29.
I don't know where his head is. Certainly he doesn't know where it is. So, where is it?
:-)
=== This may have stopped being about Michael and what he wants back in 1998. This may be nothing more than a legal train out of control trying for the case law that will loosen up all those dollars, free up those beds and 'help these poor people go on to better things'.
You did an awesome job of confirming in many ways something I know is true but yet try very hard to pretend cannot possibly be true.
I've spent waaaaay too much time working for "healthcare" attorneys not to have a sick feeling about this.
Thanks very much for the post, the nuts and bolts of which I'll be using in the future when arguing futile care protocols and other means of expedititing the draining and divvying up of the estates of folks no longer enjoying the proper "quality of life".
Astute observation.....exactly right.
This is a whole hell of a lot more than Terri, or what MS wants.
The U.S. Attorney General should be notified of crimes being committed here.
You are so cute.
It is a simple matter. As potential potential retirees learn that the State of Florida has laws in place for euthanizing them, they will find somewhere else to retire. Add in the now very real chance that their estate can be raided and stolen as well, and you could start a stampede out of the state. No senior in his right mind would even risk visiting Florida.
It's like going to some barbarous place where crime is legal and casual tourists could be stabbed in the back for their wallets, purses and gold tooth fillings.
Where did you see my picture??
Stupid me, I did not even know there were healthcare attorneys. I get a sick feeling before I even find out what exactly they do. Whom do they represent, in what matters? Per your misgivings about them, are you free to share some of this with us?
Bump to your Post #19.
This is the real deal about Terri's case.
Morning T'wit ... I'm late for Legion of Mary but will definitely get back to you on this. My Charles Dickens sort of peering into others' lives and the Fine Print of legislation courtesy of the law offices informs a lot of my more startling opinions out here, actually. =)
Remember ... I know attorneys who defend the likes of Louisiana Biologicals, for example, much less those who counsel the major HMOs on strangling competition such that they end up poised to do as they damn well please once they've cornered a market. The summary dumping of elders in Louisiana is a good example of this.
Interesting folks. Needless to say, the niche is filled predominantly by women and one of the nicest, most attractive and personable Nazis I've ever known. (He's gone on to bigger and better things in DC at the DHHS, of course. They've got an eye for real talent, do the bureaucrats.)
On the chance that no one has spotted out your tagline, I just had a peek at your site and thank you, personally, for your efforts. If any message must come out of all of this it is that human beings are not burdens. They are human beings. Members of the cool club. Deserving of love, care and time. Actually, deserving of whatever we gots to give. Irrespective of condition or outcome.
We're loving things, yes? So, we give love and carry on and care for those who can no longer care for themselves. Seems pretty simple to me. Thank you for being for real.
Please do contact Mr. Ashcroft. I have sent countless faxes to his office with no reply.
Read the depositions, statements in court and on national television of
Michael Schiavo regarding the evening/morning of Terri's collapse then look
at the police report of how the paramedics found Terri face down on the
floor. Also see Michael's statements that he will continue in his attempts
to take care of Terri (how could anyone read this any different then that he
will continue in his attempts to kill Terri) even if the courts rule against
him. Terri deserves protective custody from the State of Florida and
guardianship under Michael Schiavo needs to be removed:
Go to the following link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1135763/posts?page=58#58
and scroll up a little if post 58 is not visible, this is who the enemies of
humankind would like to see dead and I will throw down the gauntlet every
time against them and I would ask that you do the same while contacting
10 or more (more is welcome) others a day who will do the same as
well as per above the request of contacting local and federal officials, etc.
Police report, statements of Michael, etc.:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131600/posts?page=350#350
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125603/posts?page=34#34
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1135763/posts?page=55#55
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1120621/posts?page=261#261
Interesting timeline:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/comments?more=56265851
Some depositions of Michael:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1108693/posts?page=117#117
This doesn't take a rocket scientist: You do not sit comatose or people in
PVS up in a chair but you do sit up disabled people in chairs. The media,
politicians, populace of the United States of America needs to quit being
misinformed and ignorant of the disabled and needs to stop torturing and
killing the disabled merely because they are disabled or because someone
(someone who to all intents and purposes is continuing in their attempts to
commit murder) says they said (and pure hearsay at that) that they want to
live like that.
Sincerely,
Juan V Schoch
Concerned Florida Resident
United States Citizen
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A statement was released on Friday, May 14th by the Clearwater Police
Department stating that they found NO evidence of criminal activity, NO
indication of attempted criminal activity, and no harm done to Mrs. Schiavo,
stating that the investigation has concluded.
The police report also included that the two aides who were on duty on the
day the incident happened, had told the nurse on duty that the marks on
Terri's arm were on her arm before the Schindler's had visited that day.
The charge nurse who had called Michael to report the marks, had told
Michael Schiavo that the aides had reported that the marks were there before
Bob and Mary had visited.
The police detective also had found other caps such as the one that was
reported by attorney George Felos of Dunedin, Florida as suspicious, in
other enteral irrigation tubing packaging.
Last evening after 46 days of the Schindler's not being permitted to see
their daughter, the Schindler's excitedly drove to Park Place to be reunited
with Terri.
Upon their arrival, the nurse rang Michael Schiavo to ask if it was okay for
the Schindler's to go in to see their daughter. Michael Schiavo told the
nurse to tell them "No".
Although no criminal activity was concluded, it appears that the Schindler's
are now forced to wait and see their daughter until a decision is made on
the 26th of May when an emergency hearing is scheduled to be heard in Judge
Greer's court for restoration of visitation.
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For 48 days, including Mother's Day... the Schindler Family have been denied
access to their daughter for an alleged incident that turned out to be
nothing better than a hoax. Michael Schiavo and George Felos have created a
situation in which they forcibly isolated Terri Schindler-Schiavo from her
family. This was done on false accusations that they had caused harm to
their own daughter. In a press release dated March 29th, George Felos of
Dunedin, Florida all but accused Terri's parents of injecting her and
inflicting puncture wounds on her arm:
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/30/Tampabay/Doctors_examine_Schia.shtml
As you will read in the following
official press release from the Clearwater Police Department these charges
are false and unsubstantiated.
Decide for yourself what the motives were.
CHERYL FORD RN
FIGHT4TERRI@AOL.COM
Here is the Clearwater Police News Release
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
May 14, 2004
INVESTIGATION FINDS NO EVIDENCE OF CRIME
Clearwater Police Criminal Investigations Detectives concluded today an
expansive and detailed investigation into suspicions that physical harm done
with criminal intent had been visited upon a 40-year-old woman under the
care of Hospice in Clearwater.
The investigation found no evidence of harm, injury or violation as the
result of a criminal act, said Police Chief Sid Klein.
The Hospice patient, Mrs. Theresa M. Schiavo, was the subject of
investigative, forensic and medical scrutiny after concern was expressed for
her well-being on March 29, 2004.
At about 3:30 that Monday afternoon - as Mrs. Schiavo's feeding regimen
commenced - a Hospice employee noticed some marks on Mrs. Schiavo's arms,
and shared her observations with a Hospice supervisor at the Park Place
assisted living facility, 2750 Drew Street. Concerns were heightened by the
position of a plastic hospital bracelet on Mrs. Schiavo's forearm; the
positioning of a plastic feeding tube wrapped around the chair in which she
was sitting; and the discovery of a small, purple medical apparatus,
initially described as a "needle cap."
(The lavender object, manufactured by a New York medical supply company
called Qosina, is not a hypodermic needle cap, but rather a hollow,
open-ended polypropylene "catheter syringe tip adapter" - called a Luer,
part # 41501 - and is used as a plastic tubing connector in medical feeding
and irrigation setups; it has no application for injection).
The Hospice supervisor notified Mrs. Schiavo's husband, Michael, who called
his attorney and his wife's physician, Dr. Stanton Tripodis. The physician
examined Mrs. Schiavo at Park Place, and authorized her transfer to Mease
Hospital in Dunedin for an examination. Various procedures, including
toxicology tests for the presence of unauthorized drugs, proved negative,
and Mrs. Schiavo was returned to Hospice care.
Clearwater Police Detectives conducted numerous interviews with family
members, physicians, Hospice employees and others. The Mease Hospital
attending physician found nothing untoward about the marks on Mrs. Schiavo's
arm, nor did her personal physician. Neither physician quantified the marks
on her upper arm as evidence of an injection; the origin of these specific
marks is undetermined.
Although Detectives cannot say conclusively what caused the other marks,
it's believed they could have been the result of a apparatus called a "Hoyer
Lift," used to move a patient from a reclining position on a bed to a
sitting position in a chair.
The plastic hospital bracelet, a rigid band of plastic, may have worked
itself up her forearm toward her elbow since Mrs. Schiavo's arms are often
contracted upward.
The feeding tube and its position was examined by Hospice employees when
concerns were initially expressed, and subsequently by investigators: there
was no indication of leakage; detectives found no indication of intentional
manipulation; the monitor warning alarm was never activated, nor was the
feeding ever interrupted.
Detectives identified the lavender piece of plastic found in Mrs. Schiavo's
clothes as a tubing connector, and had an independent company (National
Medical Services of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania) conduct chemical and gas
examinations of swabs taken from the Luer adapter. The test results were
negative for foreign substances.
The Clearwater Police Department found no evidence of criminal activity, no
indication of attempted criminal activity, and no harm done to Mrs. Schiavo.
The investigation has concluded.
All inquiries regarding this investigation should be directed to Public
Information Officer Wayne Shelor at (727) 562-4333.
/s/
SID KLEIN
Chief of Police
+++
Whoever said that "Crime doesn't pay" didn't live in our times.
MOM MUST PAY ADMISSION TO SEE HER DAUGHTER?
This is Terri's 48th day of forced isolation from her parents, siblings,
priest, those who love her and her 1493rd day confined to just a single
small room by Hospice of the Florida Suncoast (give or take a few days
of having to be in the hospital from neglect and almost being
dehydrated/starved to death).
Just when you thought the bottom of the barrel was being reached. now there
is a fax from Michael Schiavo's attorney Deborah Bushnell that the
Schindlers could be permitted to visit their daughter if they pay for an off
duty police officer to accompany them (arranged by Deborah Bushnell & Co. of
course):
Deborah A. Bushnell
Attorney
204 Scotland Street
Dunedin, FL 34698
Phone: (727)733-9064
By Facsimile: (727) 898-4903
May 06, 2004
Patricia Fields Anderson, Esq.
447 Third Avenue N., Suite 405
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Re: Schiavo, Theresa - #1834 -Guardianship
Dear Pat:
I received your fax dated May 4, 2004.
We inquired of Hospice as to whether they would allow their
security officers to be in the room during Robert and Mary
Schindlers' visitation. To date, we have not received their
consent to this arrangement, and it does not seem likely that
such an arrangement can be made with them in the near future.
In the interim, the Schindlers may visit Terri in the presence
of a security officer. However, we would have to make private
security options. If your clients are agreeable to paying the
cost of such supervision, please let us know, and we will
follow up to make arrangements for the visitation and let you
know the cost.
Sincerely,
<signed>
Deborah A. Bushnell
cc Michael Schiavo
George J. Felos, Esq.
Scott P. Swope, Esq.
+++
Terri is denied any extensive/comprehensive range of motion therapy or any
kind of therapies that could make her better. Terri is not terminal yet
Michael Schiavo is trying hard to make it so. AHCA's April 1st investigation
didn't see anything wrong with Terri's teeth yet shortly after their
investigation 5 teeth were completely removed from her mouth, with no
restorative work considered. How could the AHCA not have noticed anything
wrong? The surveyors notes of this investigation are a must read. They show
to what lengths Hospice of Florida Suncoast, Michael Schiavo, etc. are going
to deceive investigators to cover up the fraud and criminal neglect they are
committing upon Terri, the people of Florida, United States and the world.
The AHCA appears to be complicit in aiding and abetting these crimes.
AHCA is committing fraud and I have the proof. These Chapter 119 documents
are available upon request to pc93@bellsouth.net
There is a big question: WHAT ARE YOU AND YOUR FEDERAL AND
STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DOING ABOUT BRINGING THE
PERPETRATORS TO JUSTICE? Contact the senators for your district and
ask them what can be done, there are any number of actions that can be
taken.
Contact as many people as you can (governmental and non-governmental)
about Terri's plight. Make stickers, bumper stickers, licence plates,
posters, etc.
Be creative, do take action.
"Petition for State protective custody for Terri" (please get the petition
information out to as many peoples as possible)
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/chisana7/
"Saving Terri Schiavo"
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/19461949/
Laws being broken:
http://zimp.org/
Petition for Governor Bush to put Terri in protective custody:
http://www.petitiononline.com/chisana7/petition.html
Connect the Dots ... for Terri
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1130771/posts?page=11#11
http://www.terrisfight.org
http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/c/pc93/terri_schindler_life_ribbon_campaign.htm
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The light is shining brighter on the real fact that pursuant to the Life
Felony Crimes Laws, FS825.102, which are intended to protect all of us from
the acts or omissions of others to cause us great harm or even cause our
death, when we become unable to speak and do for ourselves, no matter the
cause -- No person, elderly or disabled can be denied food and water,
delivered by any means we are able to receive, or medicine, speech therapy,
physical therapy, necessary services and rehabilitation -- to do so carries
up to Life Felony imprisonment.
Michael is just a used name. He is a puppet. The real people behind all of
these criminal acts that have been perpetrated upon vulnerable and fleecable
people, just as with Terri, are the Debra Bushnell's, the George Felos', the
Clan of Judges and the law enforcement officials they puppeteer. This
bunch -- there are other groups just like them around the state -- are only
using the powers of a guardian to *hide* Terri [ cage/kidnap ] to make sure
she gets no stimulation, no visitors, no therapies of any kind, and possibly
try to intentionally depress her by telling her that her blood family has
abandoned her, so she will give up on living; so that she will give up
fighting them from causing her to die; Causing death = Killing. All doctors
have testified that she can hear. Videotaped examinations prove it.
Michael Schiavo has been a borrowed name on all of these court filings for
the purpose of making this woman dead. It was in May of 1998 when Michael
came up with the announcement to the public, through his Petition to Kill hi
s wife with a civil court order obtained for the purpose of starving and
dehydrating his wife to death. If that is true, his bringing to the
attention of the 6th Circuit Court, and never before in the 140 other court
hearing and trial opportunities going back to the day Terri was injured, the
hearsay and unwritten assertion that his wife told him several years prior
to 1990 that she would not want to live on a feeding tube. So teach her how
to eat by mouth again. Judge Greer was asked by her kin, and showed the
laws that mandate, but going against the laws he took oath to uphold, he
instead said "I don't want anybody feeding that woman", during open court in
2001.
Given that between Feb 1990 and May 1998 Michael never brought up any
statements of Terri's saying no feeding tube and not saying that she wanted
to be starved to death, the light now shines directly on December 14, 1995,
nearly 2 and one half years prior to Michael's *new* assertion that Terri
did not want a feeding tube.
That is the day, according to a careless mistake of two of the perpetrators
using Michael to make Terri dead, that George Felos and Debra Bushnell had a
meeting to discuss the discontinuance of the feeding tube. It was a full 16
months prior to Michael having his first conference with George Felos on
March 14, 1997. Felos is the self-proclaimed right-to-be-made-dead
attorney that was immediately hired by Michael and approved by the court two
months, to be paid with Terri's Jury awarded 1.4 million dollars
specifically for 51 years of life expectancy and for her care AND
rehabilitation. Not for an attorney hired to kill her.
So, Michael's guardianship attorney Bushnell,
meets with the expert death attorney Felos,
16 months later Michael hires Felos using Terri's money and not his own
$660,000 jury award to shack up and make babies with Jodi Centonze while
prohibiting any forms of rehabilitation,
so that he can use his wife's money to make her dead, and then yet another
14 months later,
makes the announcement that Terri said in 1986 "no feeding tube" by filing
May 11, 1998 *his* Petition to starve and dehydrate Terri --- an act,
granted by a judge, that would kill his wife, would finish her off, by
denying and withholding all forms of food, water, medicine, speech therapy,
necessary services and rehabilitation.
The light is on the calculator. The sum of the facts could appear to total
up to a Premeditated Plot and Plan to intentionally kill their clients wife.
A plan that was developed over several years. Once the permission was
sought from Judge Greer, this murder plan was enacted, and set into play.
This changed everything into a bonafide crime. Attempted Murder, 1st Degree
Felony Falsification of Advance Directives (30 years), 1st Degree Felony
Neglect with intent to cause death and Attempted Aggravated Manslaughter on
a Disabled Person -- all pursuant to the Crime Laws and Statutes of Florida.
Judge Greer in his February 11, 2000 Order, committed malpractice by
misdiagnosing Terri as being an unconscious and unaware person [lawsuit 1]
and then Ordered the Guardian of the Ward to commit a 1st Degree Felony
Crime by removing Terri's feeding tube and denying her constitutional and
legal right to be protected and not feloniously victimized by being caused
to die.
Is the light on for anyone else?
David.
[Note: dates and timelines taken directly from public guardianship records,
public records, transcripts and depositions]
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>Is the light on for anyone else?
My only comment is that it's all moot so long as the principals enjoy
virtual "above the law" status.
=== This is Terri's 48th day of forced isolation from her parents, siblings, priest, those who love her
In my personal opinion ... this is our best evidence of all that these villains know damn well she (like most in her state) is Aware.
Just my two cents.
I've already bookmarked this thread. Thanks for seeding it thus. And thanks for all your great posts.
Bump post #32.
But what you say is so true. People must realize that everyone is a human being, deserving of love and care, and to think anyone is less deserving because they are severely disabled takes us one step closer to Hitler's Germany. People are not disposible just because they are disabled. Or old. Or burdensome.
The concept IS simple. What complicates it is mainstream media that doesn't report the truth, or twists the truth, and judges and other government officials that are either corrupt or have their own agenda. And too many people who find the whole thing too uncomfortable to think about, so they don't. Hopefully, Terri's story will open many eyes, as it has mine. This country is going down a dangerous road, and it's time to turn around.
At your convenience. I look forward to it. I know you have an unusually good platform for these observations. It helps that we stay mindful that Original Sin hasn't been repealed yet :-)
And as for being Dickensesque, three cheers for Beadle Bumble!
Love your tagline, T'wit LOL.
Thank you! Liberals are an inexhaustible supply of fun and moral instruction.
Terri's 1494th day of false imprisonment by Michael Schiavo \ his attorneys \ Hospice of Florida Suncoast: Terri is non-terminal and is being falsely caged and confined and subjected to criminal neglect, no therapy which ACLU apparently fully supports
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1137101/posts?page=29#29
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