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Florida office of the Dept of Justice is COMPLETELY corrupt. We found that out when we were researching Shohat, the attorney that helped frame Rush.

What is the deal on Judge Farnell’s decision. I am hearing it both ways and LifeNews (their previous posted news report) is wrong ½ the time on reporting the facts of Terri’s Case. I am tied up today on other business and cannot call the courthouse and get the straight deal here. Can anybody help out on the facts. Thx

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Schiavo Case Judge Refuses To Step Down
By STEPHEN THOMPSON spthompson@tampatrib.com

Published: Nov 21, 2003

CLEARWATER - Circuit Judge Douglas Baird on Thursday refused to step down as requested by Gov. Jeb Bush in the court battle over ``Terri's Law,'' which Bush signed to order a feeding tube reinserted into the abdomen of Terri Schiavo.

In court filings Wednesday, Bush asked Baird to disqualify himself after Baird made remarks at a hearing Friday that the law intruded on Schiavo's privacy rights and was ``presumptively unconstitutional.''

That is the argument advanced by Schiavo's husband, Michael, who is challenging Bush and the law in a case over which Baird presides.

Michael Schiavo had won court permission to have the tube removed.

On Wednesday, Bush's attorney in the case, Kenneth Connor, comparing Baird to a character from ``Alice In Wonderland,'' accused the judge of making a determination on the constitutionality of Terri's Law before the governor had made his case.

Baird, in a tersely worded response Thursday, said that although he didn't contest the facts recounted in Connor's motion to disqualify him, it didn't reach the legal threshold that would require him to recuse himself. A spokeswoman from the governor's office said Bush's attorneys will assess Baird's response and respond. George Felos, Michael Schiavo's attorney, said he had planned on submitting a pleading arguing that Baird should not recuse himself. But Baird beat him to the punch.

>>>Meanwhile, a different Pinellas-Pasco circuit judge issued a ruling in another legal battle centering on Terri Schiavo - this one started by her parents, who want their son- in-law removed as guardian. Circuit Judge Crockett Farnell said Bob and Mary Schindler could not depose a Manatee County physician today, as the couple had planned, after Michael Schiavo argued they were just trying to revisit medical issues that have been resolved. <<<

A third judge, George Greer, would normally be presiding over this battle, but the Schindlers have asked that he disqualify himself. Because he has not responded to that request, Farnell stepped in.

Florida certainly has more than its share of corrupt judges. And it's part of a national trend of "Dictatorship by Judges" and our Constitution and justice be damned.