Posted on 03/19/2005 9:18:52 AM PST by EveningStar
Wolfson's report is based on court files, depositions, medical records and interviews with everyone involved.
That said, I begin with the most explosive allegation:
Did Michael try to kill Terri?
Wolfson laughs. "No!"
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Wolfson's report states that in the four years after her collapse, Michael "had insistently held to the premise that Theresa could recover and the evidence is incontrovertible that he gave his heart and soul to her treatment and care . . . In late autumn of 1990, following months of therapy and testing and formal diagnoses of persistent vegetative state with no evidence of improvement, Michael took Theresa to California, where she received an experimental thalamic stimulator implant in her brain. Michael remained in California caring for Theresa during a period of several months."
Says Wolfson now: "Michael was adoring of her. One nursing home complained he was hostile and abusive of the staff in championing her care. She was immaculately kept. In 13 years, she never had one bedsore."
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Well, if you read the article there's an explanation. Everyone makes it sound like Michael and Judge Greer sit around drinking beer thinking up ways to torture Terri. It's just preposterous.
Question if I may..probably needs a legal answer.. He was appointed her guardian. He was also, at the time, her husband. Does Florida law require a guardian in the case where it is a spouse, to file the annual fincancila reporting forms with the court?. It would seem that any court reviewer would have at leatst questioned the huge $$ expenses made supposedly on her behalf to lawyers, as opposed to her care. So who was the legal reviewer, and which judge apppointed him, and thus has given him considerable fees over the years?
Yes I believe it does, but from what we've read, Michael is habitually delinquent in his filings, which Greer has chosen to ignore.
It would seem that any court reviewer would have at least questioned the huge $$ expenses made supposedly on her behalf to lawyers, as opposed to her care. So who was the legal reviewer, and which judge apppointed him, and thus has given him considerable fees over the years?
I don't know that there was any independent court reviewer - no doubt others would be able to answer that and your other questions more accurately.
I do know, however, that Greer ruled to authorize the use of Terri's medical fund to pay legal fees, which was done to the tune of approximately 62%, near as can be estimated. By Felos' own admission, he and one of his colleagues got close to half a million dollars over several years (he was retained in 98 and claims to have not been paid for the past 2 years), and Felos was only retained to represent Michael in his efforts to have Terri's feeding tube pulled, so his representation has had nothing to do with oversight of the medical fund. At any rate, there's only 50k left, according to a recent article about the expenditures.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to use WorldNetDaily and Newsmax as legitimate news sources. :)
Not all the people on the "save Terri" side are frothing lunatics.
I agree but I just want to know if it's true or not. Someone had posted a legitimate non-tabloid news source to me once and I can't find it. If it's true, why would he deny her communion?
And the "absolute lies" are the BEST parts of many posts which are dripping with hatred for those who believe this lady left us a long time ago. Hatred not even less than that exhibited towards Saddam or Clinton.
I know that, but it seems the ones who post to me are!!! :) ONLY KIDDING!!
I have not seen one single post that expresses hatred toward Terri.
Of course not I was referring to the hatred of those who want to keep the tube in indefinitely against those who believe she is gone.
That is her CAT scan. She has electrodes IN HER HEAD it is impossible to have an MRI unless the electrodes WERE REMOVED.
Michael ISN'T an adulterer? Really? Could you prove that? I just wondered since you seem to think those that call him that are lying.
Sure, I believe it was his intent to care for her. But after 8 years, all hope was gone (no one has recovered from PVS after 3 years).
WE have the benefit of hindsight. Michael didn't, and couldn't, have known at that time how things were going to transpire.
Then tell me why Michael testified he wanted to take care of Terri for the "rest of her life". Guess that was only for eight years, ummm?
My guess is that he thought she would get better. She didn't.
That's not what I said.
I said the Terri supporters cannot stick to the facts of the case and sooner or later slip into demonizing Michael. As though his behavior is relevant to the case.
How in the world is his behavior not "relevant to the case"??
This is a surreal nightmare................
I meant in a sane, logical, and legal sense.
Certainly in an emotionally driven, gossipy sense, his deplorable and adulterous actions make him undeserving of living, much less being Terri's guardian.
But, that's not the way things work in this country. And thank God for that.
Depends on what side of the starvation you're on
Joan Schiavo, and she is Michael's brother, Scott's wife.
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