[TheCrusader]

"It would have helped if the federal appellate briefs actually raised the de novo questions, rather than arguing just why the lower court was wrong. You don't do that in a de novo appellate situation"

And this excuses the appelate Courts' complicity in Terri Schiavo's starvation murder? You are blaming the victims and their lawyers who worked pro bono for them.

Like another Freeper already said, I wish all the legal scholars out there doing the second guessing had helped the Schindlers when they really needed them.

[sinkspur]

And this excuses the appelate Courts' complicity in Terri Schiavo's starvation murder? You are blaming the victims and their lawyers who worked pro bono for them.

They were lousy lawyers. Instead of presenting the de novo case, they dredged up all the old stuff against Greer's decisions. And, the federal judge pointed that out.

Like another Freeper already said, I wish all the legal scholars out there doing the second guessing had helped the Schindlers when they really needed them.

The Schindler's didn't ask. Even Jay Sekulow, renowned federal court plaintiffs' attorney, was reduced to giving advice on television. Nobody in the Schindler camp asked him to participate.