It also ignored the testimony of the doctors who advocated killing her. Even they testified to her condition being inconsistent with Florida's legal definition of PVS, as well as the medical community's definition. They all testified that she was responsive and aware.
Hmm. The doctors may not have known Florida's legal definition of PVS. But George Felos knew the law intimately, and he had personal, eyewitness knowledge that Terri Schiavo did not fit the definition. He knew that Terri was aware and could feel pain. Despite that knowledge, he engineered her death.
Felos is an officer of the court. As such he is charged with promoting justice and the honest operation of the judicial system. Law dot com states his responsibilities:
"As officers of the court lawyers have an absolute ethical duty to tell judges the truth, including avoiding dishonesty or evasion about reasons the attorney or his/her client is not appearing, the location of documents and other matters related to conduct of the courts."
Wendy Murphy, a former prosecutor, labeled Michael Schiavo a "fraud on the court." I wonder what she'd have to say about a lawyer/officer of the court who manipulates information presented to the court in order to cause a wrongful death?
>> Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia, or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying.
Terri Schiavo was not dying.
(12) "Persistent vegetative state" means a permanent and irreversible condition of unconsciousness in which there is:
(a) The absence of voluntary action or cognitive behavior of any kind.
(b) An inability to communicate or interact purposefully with the environment.
Was Dr. Ronald Cranford part of the environment? Terri voluntarily and cognitively interacted with him and he complimented her for it. She was, of course, far more responsive to people she knew and liked.