[T'wit]

See if you can track down what the jury actually decided. Some of the jury's close questioning of Michael has been published here and indicates they were basing their award on what he promised to do for her. (Incidentally, the time frame HE set was supposed to be 50 years -- 100% at odds with his later statements about her "wishing" to die.)

Someone said elsewhere that the jury marked the award down 70% for the injury being Terri's own fault. If so (and I assume it is, thought I haven't seen documentation), it almost certainly means that the medical story presented to the jury was the one about potassium imbalance due to excessive dieting or even bulimia. I don't believe that diet story is true (there is strong medical reason to think otherwise), but it may have been believable to the jury at the time.

Ergo, whatever you/we can learn about that jury will very likely shed light here.

[Republic]

...Incidentally, the time frame HE set was supposed to be 50 years -- 100% at odds with his later statements about her "wishing" to die...

How I wish Larry King had had this information when interviewing MS...this is disturbing and I am wondering where Pat Anderson was when it came to using this statement to expose MS's absolute destruction of his own stated intent for Terri.