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To: National Desk, State Desk Contact: Dan Costanzo of the Thomas More Law Center, 734-827-2001 ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Former prosecutor of Jack Kevorkian, Richard Thompson, reaffirmed Thursday morning the authority of Florida Governor Jeb Bush to utilize state criminal laws to prevent the death of Terri Schiavo. Pointing to two legal memos prepared by the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which were delivered to Governor Bush in October of 2003, Thompson again urged Bush to launch a formal criminal investigation into the facts surrounding the...

Although Florida governor Jeb Bush has for all intents and purposes tossed in the towel in any eleventh-hour rescue of Terri Shiavo, at least one former legal advisor is admonishing the chief executive for not using the state's criminal laws as authority to intervene – without the need for family or judicial approval – and reinsert the hospice patient's feeding tube. Richard Thompson, the president and chief counsel of the Thomas Moore Law Center, says doing so would preserve the life of a material witness in a potential criminal case. Story Continues Below The launching of a formal criminal investigation...

STARVATION: DAY 8Jeb Bush not likely to ride to rescueFlorida governor indicates he won't defy court order Posted: March 25, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Those hoping Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will step forward to save Terri Schiavo from imminent, court-ordered starvation death are likely to be disappointed, based on his comments to a group of reporters following county court Judge George Greer's ruling against the state's effort to take custody of the brain-injured woman at the center of a worldwide euthanasia controversy. While Bush reiterated his motivation to save Schiavo, based on new evidence that she is not in a...

With judge after judge deciding against Terri, it seems that she is out of options and will soon die of starvation. Can Jeb Bush intervene? Some say he can. It dumbfounds me to think that he, as governor, could pardon a murderer against the wishes of the victim’s family, the jury, and judge, but he is powerless to feed a starving brain damaged woman. Regardless, it would need a great act of courage by Jeb Bush to save Terri. Sometimes we hear a story about a man rushing into a burning building to save a child. The mother is outside...

Although Florida governor Jeb Bush has for all intents and purposes tossed in the towel in any eleventh-hour rescue of Terri Shiavo, at least one former legal advisor is admonishing the chief executive for not using the state's criminal laws as authority to intervene – without the need for family or judicial approval – and reinsert the hospice patient's feeding tube. Richard Thompson, the president and chief counsel of the Thomas Moore Law Center, says doing so would preserve the life of a material witness in a potential criminal case. The launching of a formal criminal investigation into possible abuse...

Five Briefs Say Gov. Bush Has the Legal Authority to Save Terri Schiavo Gary McCullough Media Advisory, March 24 /Christian Wire Service/ Posted on the internet are five legal briefs that explain to Govenor Jeb Bush that he has the legal authority to save Terri Schiavo. In an effort to save Florida citizen, Terri Schindler-Schiavo from a court ordered death by starvation, the Society for Truth and Justice requested and delivered the following legal memorandums to Governor Jeb Bush in October of 2003:...

It feels like the Easter weekend that Elian was snatched and sent to Cuba. I was depressed for a week after that. One thing that DID happen, though, is that Gore lost Florida because the Cubans were so engergized, and angered, over this tyrannical act. So now, in 2005, a lot of freepers, depressed over Terri's judicially decreed killing, are trying to take some solace from the possibility (as they imagine it) that some good will come out of it: A corruption probe into murky doings in Pinellas County, or into the background, finances of Michael Schiavo - and his...

Terri Schiavo's parents renewed their call late Friday night for Florida Governor Jeb Bush to intervene and prevent Terri's painful starvation death. However, Governor Bush has said court rulings prevent him from doing so. "With a stroke of his pen, he could stop it immediately," said Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, said. "He's put Terri through a week of hell and I implore him to put a stop to this. This is judicial homicide and he has to stop it." However, Bush, who has strongly supported the Schindlers at every turn in the last two years, is constrained by court rulings...

The Miami Herald reported Saturday that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush sent a team of state agents Thursday to rescue Terri Schiavo - but it was stopped short by local police. "We were ready to go," Bush spokesman Jacob DiPietre told the Herald.Doctors say that unless her feeding tube is reinserted, Schiavo, 41, will die a week or two after March 18. That is when a judge ordered it removed, having siding with Schiavo's huband's argument that Terri would have preferred it that way.On Saturday, the Herald reported that local police in Pinellas Park, the small town where Schiavo lies at...

Jeb must act NOW, and he can, says Keyes Governor has 'supreme executive power' March 25, 2005 RenewAmerica staff Thursday, Alan Keyes appeared on MSNBC's Scarborough Country with Joe Scarborough, and on Joseph Farah's national radio show, and declared that Gov. Jeb Bush not only possesses the "supreme executive authority in the state," but must act now to save Terri Schiavo. When asked if Gov. Bush has done enough to help the disabled woman, Keyes said, "Of course not. He hasn't done anything. She is being starved to death!" http://www.renewamerica.us/news/050325transcripts.htm

(CNSNews.com) - Gov. Jeb Bush is being compared to Pontius Pilate as he comes under intensive pressure from religious and pro-life groups to do whatever it takes to save Terri Schiavo's life. The groups that are pressuring Gov. Bush commend him for all he has done so far on Terri's behalf. But it hasn't worked -- and they say there is more that he can do. Dr. D. James Kennedy, the president of Coral Ridge Ministries, said that as governor, Jeb Bush is the only legal authority who can stop Terri from starving. "He must act and he must act...

At the very first Easter, the then Governor could find no crime the condemned man had committed. He protested with those wishing to put Jesus to death. Finally he, literally, washed his hands of the whole matter and handed Christ over to be executed by the power-brokers of the day. Pontius Pilate's instincts were right, but he lacked backbone. He knew Jesus was innocent of any crime, but when pressured by the "masses", he gave in and allowed this innocent man to be nailed to a cross and left there until he was dead: a slow and cruel form of...

STARVATION: DAY 8 Jeb Bush not likely to ride to rescue Florida governor indicates he won't defy court order Posted: March 25, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Those hoping Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will step forward to save Terri Schiavo from imminent, court-ordered starvation death are likely to be disappointed, based on his comments to a group of reporters following county court Judge George Greer's ruling against the state's effort to take custody of the brain-injured woman at the center of a worldwide euthanasia controversy. While Bush reiterated his motivation to save Schiavo, based on new evidence that...

CLEARWATER - Some of the hundreds of e-mails and letters he gets call him a "murderer." "Are you related to (Josef) Mengele, or just a student?" one man wrote, referring to the ruthless Nazi doctor. An indignant woman who believed his decisions weren't Christian once called and asked if he thought he was going to heaven. Deputies who fear for his safety escort him to and from work. That's life these days for Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George W. Greer, who has ruled that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube could be removed, allowing her to die. Greer sits at the epicenter of...

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CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- A state judge refused Thursday to hear Gov. Jeb Bush's arguments to take custody of Terri Schiavo, leaving the brain-damaged woman's parents with only the slimmest hopes in their fight to keep her alive. Bush's request cited new allegations of neglect and challenges the diagnoses that Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state, but Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer wasn't convinced. Greer's decision came hours after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to order her feeding tube reinserted. The decisions reduce chances for quick intervention to reconnect the tube, which was pulled last Friday. Doctors have said...

On a day when hundreds remembered six people killed in a fire many believe was set in retaliation for a mother's stand against drug dealers, politicians scrambled for ways to address Baltimore's crime problems and the failures of the state's criminal justice system. At an afternoon news conference, Mayor Martin O'Malley outlined a plan calling for enlisting 100 state troopers to help city police, increasing jail and prison capacity by sending some inmates out of state, and finding more volunteers to mentor city children. Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend asked Gov. Parris N. Glendening to lift a hiring freeze on...