[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

The whole case rests on the fact that the Schindlers (Terri's parents) were totally outlawyered by the husband (Michael Schiavo) at the trial court level.

I've been saying for a long time that the Schindler's lawyers (both old and new) are totally incompetent.

[TheCrusader]

"David Gibbs III and Barbara Weller of Gibbs Law Firm in Seminole, Fla.,"

Actually the team of Attornies Gibbs and Weller of Seminole, FL are a highly competent duo. But they took over the case in late 2004, and Judge Greer had already been "persuaded" by Michael Schiavo in the year 2000 that Terri was in a "persistent vegetative state".

No lawyers, no matter how competent, were going to win this case, because the powerful, highly organized death cult had the deck stacked against them from the beginning. Just witness the fact that not the Governor of Florida, the U.S. Congress, nor the President of the United States could so much as make these bastards budge an inch. Do you really think a more polished argument by some lawyer was going to make any difference? I don't.