Not necessarily.
They are fond of saying, "Sorry. But this is a civil case."
I'm glad you clarified, and I apologize for getting bent out of shape on the point of the living arrangement. However, I was making the point about Michael living with them, because in the past (about a year ago when the Terri threads were very heated) your same argument had been used by other posters on Terri threads to suggest that Michael was the one who had taken the Schindlers in, and that simply wasn't the case. I do apologize for my misinterpretation of your point.
Just remember people are taken off life support daily.
Oh, I remember and that is one reason why I am so concerned about the issue of food and water being considered "extraordinary care" or "heroic measures". That's how the issue of removal of life support got started within each state's legislature. Those are the terms that we began using back in the good old days. Now, it appears, the laws are no longer in place to protect the weak and vulnerable from those who would like to do them harm. Now pretty much anyone can say, "Oh, I heard him once say he wouldn't want to live like that", and then food and water are withheld. I am completely opposed to that.
I just hated how this turned into a media circus pushed by the likes of Sean Hannity and Randall Terry.
While I am not a Randall Terry fan, IMHO, he was doing what his conscience was telling him to do. The media circus? I hate the media circus of our everyday lives. The MSM is completely out of control, but in their minds, their business is all about ratings. They're whores for the most part. Also, to play devil's advocate with you, I want you to consider that perhaps the media was pushed first by the likes of George Felos, Michael's lawyer. The media parroted pretty much everything he said without ever offering the opposing side of the argument, or even real truth. An example would be the poor reporting that Terri was in a coma for 15 years or that she had a heart attack. Neither was true, but both were widely reported. That's what I mean about the media and journalism today. There just isn't investigative reporting going on much these days, it's pretty much cut and paste journalism. What bunk!
That said, I'm glad that somebody with the recognition factor of Sean Hannity finally decided to look closely at what was going on. Don't worry about Hannity getting all his talking points across. His sidekick, Alan Colmes, takes good care of the liberal, socialist point of view.
I also thought it was pretty low how the Shiendlers kind of hinted at the idea that Michael somehow tried to kill their daughter but failed. Don't you think if their was any evidence of this the police would have done something about that. And just the other day on his show, Monday morning detective Sean Hannity was hinting at the idea that Michael was guilty of some sort of crime.
If I didn't know as much about Terri's case as I do, I might agree with you, but honestly, there was never a good investigation done at the outset. I'm sorry that I must disagree with you or anyone else who thinks that the police did a thorough investigation. They never interviewed Bobby Schindler about Terri's collapse (who was at the scene when the paramedics arrived). Why not? Shouldn't the police interview people who were there in the apartment at the time that Terri was collapsed and being worked on? Wouldn't that be normal procedure? Wouldn't it be in the police report? If they had talked with Bobby, they would have discovered some startling things that were in direct contrast to the statements Michael had made about not having any fights or any marital discord between them.
The case was sent to homicide because something wasn't right, but no investigation happened beyond the 2 hours and 20 minutes in the early morning of 2/25/90. What happened to that report? Did it get stuck at the bottom of the "in" pile and then when it was discovered, it was an embarrassment to the department? Is that the reason why, according to calls made to the St. Petersburg Police Department, it was found that Terri's file is an unsolved, uninvestigated, open, cold-case file in the Homicide Division? I think somebody's got some 'splaining to do!
The Schindlers have good reason to question what really happened that night. Michael, while under oath, has testified to several different things that happened. Which version is true? Why didn't Michael do CPR on Terri? He had been trained in CPR as a condition of his employment with McDonald's. If Michael had nothing to hide, then why wasn't he more forthright with the Schindlers? Why did he have his lawyer, Daniel Grieco, meet with them at the hospital while Terri was being worked on, and discuss letting Michael have all the say in how to treat Terri? Why did Michael phone a lawyer to begin with? Was the form he had them sign one that gave Michael complete approval of him alone as her guardian, of both her person and her assets? Is that why they were never informed of a guardianship hearing in June, 1990? This was their daughter, for Pete's sake.
If Michael was really on the good terms with them as he and they have both asserted, then why did Michael not inform them of the developments in Terri's care? He was living with them!! I can just hear Michael say, "Oh, sorry, Mom & Dad! It completely slipped my mind to tell you that the reason I wasn't here taking care of Terri with you was because I was standing in front of a judge getting complete control of Terri's guardianship. I didn't think you'd care to know about that. What's the big deal anyway? Did you want to come?" Get real! I think it is perfectly honest for the Schindlers to feel that Michael has been hiding something from them.
Michael has insisted that he called 911 right away, but that's untrue. He didn't call 911 until after he spoke to his FIL, who insisted that Michael call 911. Michael has stated that he phoned Bobby to come over, but that's not true, either, Bobby was alerted by Terri's dad. Michael has told lies over and over. It is natural for the Schindlers to be suspicious of him, because he hasn't been forthright with them for a long, long time.