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To: DollarCoins
During the appeal, the other 19 judges (I may be wrong on this number)look at the case and determine whether the judge had followed the law.

You are either trying to be clever or disingenuous. The poster you responded to clearly said the facts in this case. Not a single other judge ever examined the facts... not one! The facts of the case and the law in the case are two very different things. The law may state that a judge has the authority to decide the facts (and therefore have been followed) without the actual facts determined being correct (which is pretty much what happened here). Once T.S. was declared PVS by Greer, and once he ruled that her wish was that she not be sustained by extraordinary measures, not a single other judge examined the accuracy of those "facts." They were simply accepted by all of the appeals courts.

So your post does not address the original post's complaint at all. The appeals court judges looked to see if the law had been followed, not if the facts were accurate...

35 posted on 04/01/2005 6:19:29 AM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Still teaching... or a reasonable facsimile thereof...)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

"Not a single other judge ever examined the facts... not one!"

If you think that the other judges do not look at the "facts" or evidence that judge Greer looked at you are DEAD WRONG. What the judges do not look at is any "new" evidence. How do you think that any of the other 19 judges could make a ruling without actually seeing facts of the case that was before Judge Greer and the basis on which he made his ruling? They look at the information and determine whether Greer followed the law. Which inevitably he did.


48 posted on 04/01/2005 6:35:40 AM PST by DollarCoins
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