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"I also think that he didn't allow various affidavits filed by nurses supporting the Schindlers and by an ex-girlfriend that stated that Michael admitted never discussing the issue of End-Of-Life decisions with Terri."

Those affidavits were filed many months after the hearing.

"I also think that he dis-allowed testimony from a friend on Terri that said that Terri did not agree with the decision to end life support for Karen Ann Quinlan."

She did testify, but the judge concluded that those remarks would have been made when Terri was only 11 years old.

"Dr. Hammesfahr's testimony because of a techicality that ..."

Dr. Hammesfahr didn't examine Terri until two years after this hearing. I'm not sure that what he had to contribute was relevant to Terri.

Robert, do you have sources for this information? I have only found what's available at abstractappeals.org (It's something like that). But those are mostly summaries of the court proceedings. Where do you find the dates that doctors examined Terri? I'm not trying to challenge your facts, I would just like to go look them up myself so I can better educate myself.

I'd love to help, but I deleted the links.

I remember that Dr. Hammesfahr submitted an affidavit on May 7, 2001 stating that Terri was not in a PVS, but that he didn't personally examine her until September 3rd and 4th, 2002. Google might help you there.

Another source is trinitytx's profile page at: http://www.freerepublic.com/~trinitytx/