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To: lugsoul
I did read it, of course, and it sounds more like an accusation than a friendly warning.

In fact, I wrote my statement in plain declarative sentences and I believe it is true in all particulars. I do not write lies. We have discussed the supporting facts in detail in other threads, including highly qualified medical testimony from FR physicians looking at, e.g., Terri's bone scan. There is also evidence based on her blood chemistry that has yet to be brought out.

So what part of my post do you find false and defamatory?

46 posted on 05/15/2004 5:17:18 AM PDT by T'wit ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society" - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: T'wit
I don't know if it is false or not - but if it is false, "It was a crime that damaged Terri's brain initially" would certainly be defamatory. Falsely accusing one of causing a life-threatening injury to their spouse would be per se defamatory. That's why I suggested qualifying the statement as one of opinion or speculation.

Even your cited evidence does not support the charge. The bone scan may show some kind of injury, but it does not show how it occurred.

Don't be so sensitive. It was not an accusation, it was a heads up. As in, if Michael Schiavo wanted to sue you for falsely accusing him of a crime, he could. And to assert truth as a defense, you'd have to prove the crime. Not the injury, mind you, but the crime.

54 posted on 05/15/2004 8:44:31 AM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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