Posted on 05/14/2004 2:36:09 PM PDT by phenn
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release May 14, 2004
INVESTIGATION FINDS NO EVIDENCE OF CRIME
Clearwater Police Criminal Investigations Detectives concluded today an expansive and detailed investigation into suspicions that physical harm done with criminal intent had been visited upon a 40-year-old woman under the care of Hospice in Clearwater.
The investigation found no evidence of harm, injury or violation as the result of a criminal act, said Police Chief Sid Klein.
The Hospice patient, Mrs. Theresa M. Schiavo, was the subject of investigative, forensic and medical scrutiny after concern was expressed for her well-being on March 29, 2004.
At about 3:30 that Monday afternoon - as Mrs. Schiavo's feeding regimen commenced - a Hospice employee noticed some marks on Mrs. Schiavo's arms, and shared her observations with a Hospice supervisor at the Park Place assisted living facility, 2750 Drew Street. Concerns were heightened by the position of a plastic hospital bracelet on Mrs. Schiavo's forearm; the positioning of a plastic feeding tube wrapped around the chair in which she was sitting; and the discovery of a small, purple medical apparatus, initially described as a "needle cap."
(The lavender object, manufactured by a New York medical supply company called Qosina, is not a hypodermic needle cap, but rather a hollow, open-ended polypropylene "catheter syringe tip adapter" - called a Luer, part # 41501 - and is used as a plastic tubing connector in medical feeding and irrigation setups; it has no application for injection).
The Hospice supervisor notified Mrs. Schiavo's husband, Michael, who called his attorney and his wife's physician, Dr. Stanton Tripodis. The physician examined Mrs. Schiavo at Park Place, and authorized her transfer to Mease Hospital in Dunedin for an examination. Various procedures, including toxicology tests for the presence of unauthorized drugs, proved negative, and Mrs. Schiavo was returned to Hospice care.
Clearwater Police Detectives conducted numerous interviews with family members, physicians, Hospice employees and others. The Mease Hospital attending physician found nothing untoward about the marks on Mrs. Schiavo's arm, nor did her personal physician. Neither physician quantified the marks on her upper arm as evidence of an injection; the origin of these specific marks is undetermined.
Although Detectives cannot say conclusively what caused the other marks, it's believed they could have been the result of a apparatus called a "Hoyer Lift," used to move a patient from a reclining position on a bed to a sitting position in a chair.
The plastic hospital bracelet, a rigid band of plastic, may have worked itself up her forearm toward her elbow since Mrs. Schiavo's arms are often contracted upward.
The feeding tube and its position was examined by Hospice employees when concerns were initially expressed, and subsequently by investigators: there was no indication of leakage; detectives found no indication of intentional manipulation; the monitor warning alarm was never activated, nor was the feeding ever interrupted.
Detectives identified the lavender piece of plastic found in Mrs. Schiavo's clothes as a tubing connector, and had an independent company (National Medical Services of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania) conduct chemical and gas examinations of swabs taken from the Luer adapter. The test results were negative for foreign substances.
The Clearwater Police Department found no evidence of criminal activity, no indication of attempted criminal activity, and no harm done to Mrs. Schiavo. The investigation has concluded.
All inquiries regarding this investigation should be directed to Public Information Officer Wayne Shelor at (727) 562-4333.
/s/ SID KLEIN Chief of Police
(Excerpt) Read more at clearwaterpolice.com ...
Never gave it a thought. I frame remarks what I regard as true, not by what-if-they-sue legal thinking. When you start caving in to litigiousness, truth will be the first casualty.
I might add, I have no wish to defame or libel anyone. Not out of legal worries but because it's wrong.
Nevertheless, since somebody raised the legal matter, it is kind of fun to think about. If you have dark secrets, a lawsuit is the fast road to get them exposed. For example, Alger Hiss was egged on by the whole elitist liberal world he inhabited to sue Whittaker Chambers, or else lose his credibility. That opened the whole case to critical examination. In the end, not only the jury but the world knew that Hiss was a Soviet agent, and that he lied, and lied, and lied, denying it.
thanks for the clarification.
I wonder if those five (or seven) teeth that were PULLED were the ones that should have been the BEST EVIDENCE that Terri NEVER HAD BULEMIA?
(Is Mickey trying to destroy the evidence?)
Does this mean Terri can see her parents again without them having to pay for police presence?
I recently visited the Holocaust Museum in Wash DC. Terri is very much like one of those unfortunate victims of medical experimentation.
WOW!!! That is one heck of an in your face post! Talk about getting the fact with perfect chronology. Geeez. Michael Shiavo is one freaking human being.
I agree with you that this is a lousy title for the thread. How 'bout: Michael Schiavo Caught in Web of Deceit - OR - Schindler's Being Punished For Nothing
Amen.
So all we have to do is say "in my humble opinion" (IMHO) and then we can say whatever we want. Yahoo!
Thanks for posting the photos. Turned away . . .
Bump for Terri.
I think OJ Simpson, Gary Condit and Michael Schiavo have something in common.
Did you even read the few words you quote? Who is defamed? Who was accused? There is no name. Nobody is accused of anything.
While we're at it, what kind of crime was it?
This, from a law definitions web site: "Defamation definition – an intentional false communication that injures another person’s good name or reputation."
I added the italics to emphasize these two tests: A) It has to be intentionally false, not just "false," which is a different argument. A view that is merely mistaken is not defamatory. Akin to the Sullivan rule, there has to be something like malice at work -- intent to falsify and harm. B) It has to cause injury. If Michael Schiavo claims to be the unnamed person in the above quotation, and sues, he still cannot point to any real injury.
The report was successfully concealed by Michael Schiavo in collusion with George Felos. Felos is no dummy, he knew what that report meant and kept it hidden.
It was revealed when Felos accidentally handed it to the Schindlers' attorney along with other papers. Either a monumental blunder by him or the hand of God working for Terri.
Several doctors here in Free Republic have looked at it as well. Terri's injuries were equal in magnitude to a severe auto wreck. Of course, she wasn't in any auto wrecks.
For future editions, you might add in that Terri has never had a heart attack. I think that rules out some of the "chemical imbalance" theories for her "collapse." But I'm not a medic, so others with expertise ought to explain that aspect.
Terri's 1494th day of false imprisonment by Michael Schiavo \ his attorneys \ Hospice of Florida Suncoast: Terri is non-terminal and is being falsely caged and confined and subjected to criminal neglect, no therapy which ACLU apparently fully supports
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1137101/posts?page=29#29
Bump.
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