[patriots] Second-guessing Judge Whittemore

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Subject: [patriots] Second-guessing Judge Whittemore
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:33:12 -0800 (PST)
From: D McG
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I pray to God that I am wrong. I pray that the news will come that Judge Whittemore has acted with common sense and conscience and ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube re-inserted. But all afternoon my soul has been screaming that he will not.

The pleadings before Judge Whittemore were for the immediate re-insertion of Terri's feeding tube pending a full hearing thirty days hence. He received these pleadings in the early hours of this morning. I believe that if there was ANY shadow of a doubt...ANY minute possibility in Judge Whittemore's mind as to the Constitutionality and moral justice of allowing Terri Schiavo to die from starvation and dehydration, that he would have acted on that doubt and possibility and ordered the immediate re-insertion of the feeding tube, rather than risk any further injury, neglect, or even her death. The sane and rational man would take this action and err on the side of caution and life, while collecting his own thoughts gleaned from the record, lest he be unexpectedly caught with her blood on his hands during the process.

To consider that he has failed to act, in spite of any doubts he might have, would be akin to playing roulette. If he bought into George Felos' misleading argument that her belly would have to be sliced open to replace the tube and he is thinking to spare her such a barbaric action in case he must rule against her, would be fallacious reasoning and most certainly call into question his competence as a jurist.

In the meantime, time is slipping away and dark hours grow closer for Terri Schiavo. Reason says that Judge Whittemore has already made up his mind and thus imposed a state a limbo on Terri, her family and the world. Every hour now wasted is every hour less available in the search for another remedy. The rational mind can easily slip into thoughts of deliberate duplicity and conspiracy

While we catch our collective euphoric breaths of hope which came with the ratification of the congressional bill and signature by the President, we will be caught unaware when the twelfth hour is upon us. We have been pacified and lulled back into our complacency of trust that good will ultimately prevail and conquer the evil of men. All of our righteous declarations and good wishes will be of little consolation when the final bell tolls; and we will lament in the truth that, �All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.� (Edmund Burke)

Diana Terrell McGuffie

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SENTENCES HANDED DOWN IN TAMPA POLICE CORRUPTION CASE Three former members of an elite drug unit were sentenced to federal prison Monday for framing drug suspects, violating citizens� civil rights and lying to cover-up what became a brotherhood of corruption. Declaring the scandal a "nightmare" that continues to plague the Manatee County Sheriff�s Office and the credibility of the judicial system, U.S. District Judge James Whittemore said he had to send the men to prison despite pleas for leniency and their cooperation with investigators. He sentenced Paul D.

Maass to 5 years and three months; Wayne V. Wyckoff to two years and three months and Thomas C. Wooten to a year. Whittemore said he would recommend they be sent to a minimum- or medium-security prison where they might be safer from other inmates. All were deputies with the Delta drug squad. The scandal began to unfold in 1998 when a man reported to the sheriff�s internal affairs unit that deputies searched his motel room without a warrant and took $9,000 in cash. The complaint was a pathway to a wide-range of allegations including that squad members twice beat suspects and lied on reports to cover it up and took money from the department�s confidential informant fund. The three pleaded guilty and have been cooperating with the U.S. Attorney�s Office, the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in an investigation of corruption at the sheriff�s office. Two other former deputies also have pleaded guilty.

Charges are pending against a sixth. The scandal has forced the Manatee County state attorney�s office to drop charges against more than 100 people accused of drug crimes by the Delta squad. The judge was told of a largely unsupervised atmosphere where drug agents framed suspects, stole their money and lied in arrest reports and on the witness stand. In one case, Sara Smith lost custody of her 1-year-old daughter after deputies planted crack cocaine in her home and then testified against her to win a conviction. Smith, now 22 years old, settled her civil lawsuit with the sheriff�s office Friday for $275,000 but her attorney said lawsuits against the individual officers are pending. Daytona Beach News Journal, August 15, 2000 http://www.news-journalonline.com/

CORRUPT DEPUTY LANDS TERM IN PRISON

http://support.casals.com/aaaflash1/busca.asp?ID_AAAControl=2964

The Tampa Tribune, August 19, 2000

http://www.tampatrib.com

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