Was this fact presented at the trial that gave Schiavo the Power to kill his wife?!
If not, it shouldda been, and if it was, the judge musta just wanted to kill Terri, fer what purpose, I have no idea!!
FReegards...MUD
Mud, the judge at first was mistaken and thought that Terri was 11 when the Quinlan case happened.
So the judge ruled that Terri had to die, because she was too young to know that she would want to keep living in such a state, at the age of 11.
Only problem was the judge was wrong on her age when the Quinlan case was in the headlines.
However, instead of changing his prior ruling, and admitting that he had made a mistake, he said something to the effect, "It really wouldn't make a difference anyway."
So he ruled Terri had to die.
Terri got one bad ruling after another out of this judge -- she never had a chance.
Here's an excerpt from that post in #867:
"In fact, in 1985 when Karen Ann Quinlin died, Terri Schiavo had told her best friend that she disagreed with the parents decision to remove their daughter's respirator. Does this sound like a woman who wanted to be dehydrated to death? Terri's friend testified to this before Judge Greer, but the Judge dismissed this testimony. He reasoned that Quinlin's respirator had been removed in 1976 and Terri would only have been 11 years old when this conversation took place. But the friend testified that Terri had said this when Quinlin died, which was nine years later. Terri would have been 20 years old."