The Fla Supremes may have seen it but they were full of old codgers until Jeb put a young Hispanic jurist on the bench. I think Jeb's appointees voted against Terri subsequent to her 2003 save. Tallahassee voted to kill her. Jeb didn't over-ride them by using his executive authority the Supremes pre-Alito and Roberts DENIED HER THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD IN D.C. (Anna Nicole Smith got her day in court though). Atlanta's Appeals Court turned Terri down, a republican there as well. 2nd dca always affirmed Greer especially if it was about Terri. Whittemore in Fed Court in Tampa is a sadistic sob who let her starve and dry up while he run out the clock and held sadistic hearings where the Schindlers' witnesses were not allowed to testify and Whittemore said their attorney's memorandum of law wasn't good enough.
That had nothing to do with doing a de novo hearing. The first priority was to rehydrate Terri, not critique what's his name's memo of law! You know, the guy that looks kinda like Clark Kent. I just can't think of his name tonight.
A colorful description :-) There's more than one of those around.
David Gibbs III?