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Who Is Judge George (Boss) Greer? [The Terri Schiavo Case Isn't Over]
By Ken Hughes
Apr. 2, 2005
Boss Greer’s biography reads like a TV sitcom. [He’s the Judge who ordered Terri Schiavo’s murder.] He was born in Brooklyn N.Y. and taken to Florida at a very early age. Therefore, he qualifies as a southern redneck. He lives up to perceived redneck traditions in every respect.
George Greer attended Largo High School in Clearwater Fl., Jr. College in St. Petersburg, College at Florida State, Law School at the University of Florida, Gainesville Fl. There seems to be little information on his activities while in school. He certainly wasn’t an outstanding student. He returned to Clearwater Fl. to practice real-estate law.
Lawyers are attracted to politics as Hogs are to Truffles. Natural instinct brings them together. The Judgeship Boss Greer holds is an elective position. He wins elections by default, no one is willing to spend the money necessary to defeat him.
The execution of Terri Schiavo isn’t Boss Greer’s first such decision. Previously he failed to issue a restraining order for a woman who feared for her life. She positioned the court for help in protecting her from her estranged husband. A week after Judge Greer said she lacked evidence she was murdered by her husband. This decision prompted a study by Columbia Law School determining Judge Greer had an 89% error rate in death sentences. It was Terri Schiavo’s misfortune to end up in the court of the most incompetent Judge in Florida.
Judge [Boss] Greer’s Court decisions will be studied in law classes everywhere as closely as those of Judge Roy Bean’s are studied. We can only hope the Florida judicial system will be as interested. People who don’t know the law should never elect Judges. A process applying the law should be used to appoint Judges. Judges should be limited to one ten year term.
The execution of Terri Schiavo will serve to bring attention to incompetent Judges. Hopefully it brings about changes in the judicial system to curb such incompetent behavior in the future.
Terri Schiavo and all the other Terri Schiavo’s deserve to be allowed due process, she and they should be given ever opportunity the law allows, if the law doesn’t allow it change the law. Life should be dominant over laws. This is a clear case of judges protecting judges. This judge, Boss Greer wasn’t following the law he was making laws from the bench. His rulings are a clear violation of his authority.
This case isn’t over, it’s over for Terri. It will go on until there are laws forcing judges to follow the law.
Email: ken-hughes@comcast.net