Melissa Roxanne Stanley
TERRI SCHIAVO'S PARENTS ON LARRY KING LIVE NOW - 1 AM EDT!
Tue Sep 28, 2004 01:16
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TERRI SCHIAVO'S PARENTS ON LARRY KING LIVE NOW - 1 AM EDT!

This is a repeat of broadcast which was LIVE from 9-10 PM EDT Monday night, 9/28/04.

This show will repeat again from 3-4 AM EDT (in 3 hours from now!)

David Gibbs is the head of a law firm, (one of at least 6 law firms) who researched the case last October, after Randall Terry met with the Schindlers and Governor Bush. David Gibbs and Gibbs Law Firm wrote to Jeb Bush informing him he could stop the attempted murder of Terri, reinsert her feeding tube, and order a full scale investigation of the entire matter. All of the attorneys wrote to Governor Bush on October 15th and 16th, 2003. Bush chose NOT to stop Terri from being murdered before her tube was removed for a second time and for almost a week afterwards! Nothing was done by Bush until Terri's Law passed. Then, the lying media claimed the Legislature EMPOWERED Bush to save Terri by ordering the feeding tube reinserted. This is HOGWASH, as Bush had the power as Governor the entire time, per the Florida Constitution and U.S. Constitution, to stop this illegal attempted murder and order a full scale investigation of Michael Schiavo and all of the other corrupt and collusive actors in this case! Apparently, Bush was and still is, following HIGHER ORDERS but there is someone higher than anyone that he will have to answer to one day!

Read Part 2 for more attny. letters to Gov. Bush!

Melissa

Note: Terri's feeding tube was removed on October 15, 2003.
Here are several letters written to Governor Bush on 10/15/03 and 10/16/03.
Please read and post these!



Melissa


GIBBS LAW FIRM, P.A.
Attorneys and Counselors at Law


5666 SEMINOLE BOULEVARD, SUITE TWO TELEPHONE: (727) 399-8300
SEMINOLE, FLORIDA 33772 FACSIMILE: (727) 398-3907

October 16, 2003



VIA EMAIL & FACSIMILE 850-488-9810



Honorable Jeb Bush

Governor, State of Florida

c/o Governor’s General Counsel, Racquel Rodriguez & Christa Calamas

Tallahassee, FL





Dear Governor Bush:



Several hours ago our office received a copy of a letter to you from Mr. Jack

Thompson, Esq., written in response to your request yesterday for assistance from legal

counsel inside and outside your Administration toward the end of saving Terri Schiavo’s

life.



We wish to affirm and support the objective of saving Terri’s life as expressed in

that letter. Mr. Thompson is correct in his assessment that Terri has been sentenced to

death without even the normal means of appeal that would be afforded to her if she were

a convicted prisoner. Were Terri Schiavo a convicted prisoner, she would at least have

the possibility of a reprieve, or even a pardon, from your office.



Several days ago, the Schindlers also asked our law firm to assist in saving Terri’s

life and, in response, we closed our doors for two days to permit our ten attorneys to

review around the clock the more than ten-year record in this case in search of a legal

miracle. We met with Terri’s parents for several hours and spent hundreds of hours

collectively researching and consulting with previous and present attorneys for the

Schindlers. We know that other law firms in other parts of the state have taken similar

drastic measures this week. Unfortunately we have all reached the same conclusion. The

probate court system has blocked all attempts to rationally review this decision to

sentence Terri Schiavo to death.



In reviewing the legal filings in this case, we noted that there is much credible

evidence that Terri Schiavo did NOT indicate to her husband or to anyone else that she

had a wish to die were she to become disabled. We also saw evidence that leads us to believe
that some measure of successful rehabilitation was at least a reasonable

possibility had her husband/guardian and the probate court system at any point along the

way allowed the use of available funds earmarked for her rehabilitation in a medical

malpractice settlement ten years ago.



There are many holes in this case. The "legal" facts that the court system has

determined, and that all the judges who have reviewed this matter have affirmed, do not

comport with the "real" facts. Terri Schiavo’s parents want to permit Michael Schiavo to

move on with his life and with his new family and desire to care for Terri themselves.

There is no real, credible evidence in this record, despite the probate court system’s

findings, that Terri ever told her husband she would want to die under the circumstances

in which she now finds herself. Having entered the finding that she would have chosen

to die, the court system has shut down every available means of reviewing alternatives,

and has prevented access to Terri from any medical personnel who believe in the

possibility that she may recover.



On Monday, after our office had reviewed the legal history in this case, we

assisted the Schindler’s attorneys in petitioning Judge Greer to clarify his order that Terri

Schiavo’s feeding tube be removed. The federal court had pointed out that Judge Greer’s

order did not specify whether alternate feeding attempts could or should be made

following the removal of the nutrition and hydration tube. Several medical experts have

testified that Terri has a swallowing reflex. Our motion (which is attached) asked the

probate court to clarify the fact that, under its order to remove her feeding tube, Terri

could be given food and nutrition naturally by mouth under medical supervision after her

feeding tube was removed. The probate court appears to be so committed to Terri

Schiavo’s death that it refused even to consider hearing arguments on that motion and

denied it within hours of its filing.



Having carefully reviewed this matter over hundreds of hours collectively this

week, we are well aware of the legal roadblocks in this case. Because the probate court’s

order did not specify whether natural feeding should be attempted and did not bar the

hospice from attempting to feed Terri Schiavo, we believe that the normal medical

standard of care should be followed and that natural feeding should be attempted.

Because Michael Schiavo has blocked access to any medical personnel who would

attempt such measures and has, we believe, instructed hospice personnel not to attempt

such measures, I suggest that it would be appropriate for your office to intervene through

the Department of Children and Families in an investigatory capacity. Toward that end,

DCFS should be directed to open an investigation and to appoint a doctor to examine

Terri Schiavo and determine to the Department’s satisfaction whether she can be fed

naturally. If her current hospice care, as chosen by Michael Schiavo her present

guardian, is determined to have breached the medical standard of care for patients,

it should be held accountable and the Department should take immediate custody of the

patient.

As you can see from our Motion for Clarification, we were not asking for yet

another bite at the apple, but, rather, for reasonable assurances that the family’s legitimate

concerns would be addressed and protected. Rather than ensuring the family’s rights of

access to their daughter, Terri’s ability to have her last rites administered by the family’s

priest, and the right of humane treatment—even in the process of removing the nutrition

and hydration tube—the probate court system chose to leave these matters uncertain.

These uncertainties certainly open the door for an investigation by the Department.

Thank you for your compassionate willingness to intervene. We stand ready to

assist in this effort in any manner you might find appropriate. At this point, your office

appears to be Terri Schiavo’s only hope for life and for surviving a cruel and unusual,

judicially imposed death sentence.

Sincerely,


Gibbs Law Firm, P.A.

David C. Gibbs III

Admitted in Florida, North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado, Texas, and the District of Columbia.

Enclosures as stated

(Here is the Enclosure Gibbs is speaking of above, which he also faxed and e-mailed to Jeb Bush). Gibbs assisted the Schindlers attorneys with the Motion for Clarification below re: asking Judge Greer to clarify, in his order to remove the feeding tube, that Terri be given ORAL (by mouth) food and water after her tube was removed). Judge Greer denied the Motion, (see below), within hours of it being filed, refusing to even hear any arguments regarding it!

It is ILLEGAL to withhold ORAL food and water as this is (attempted) murder and would be considered Euthanasia, (which is also illegal in Florida), IF Terri had actually expressed she wanted no artificial life support, which she most certainly DID NOT! She instead told her friends, "Where there's life there's hope," concerning Karen Quinlan. Terri also got very upset with a friend of hers when the friend told a joke to Terri about Karen Quinlan being a vegetable.


Terri loved animals and was heartbroken when she thought she had accidentally run over a rabbit. She was very devoted to visiting her grandmother often when her grandmother was in a nursing home. Never once did Terri remark to any of her friends or family that she would not want to live like the residents there or like Karen Quinlan, nor did she tell her family or friends that she wouldn't want to be on life support. She most certainly never said she would want to be DEHYDRATED AND STARVED TO DEATH, which is extremely tortuous!

Corrupt Judge Greer never did clarify that Terri should be given ORAL food and water after her tube was removed. Anyone who followed Michael's / Felos' / Michael's attorneys / other evildoers' orders to NOT give Terri ORAL food and water once the tube was removed is guilty of attempted murder (twice now, as Terri's feeding tube has been removed on two separate occasions)!


Judge Greer also refused to allow swallowing tests, despite Jay Wolfson recommending they be done prior to Terri's feeding tube being removed for the second time this past October, 2003. He was the biased person who announced on TV that Terri's Law was unconstitutional yet he was chosen to write a report about Terri, (after Terri's Law passed, as it called for Terri to have a Guardian Ad Litum). Terri is already entitled to a Guardian Ad Litum by law and is definitely entitled to her own attorney to represent HER (not just to represent the Schindlers). Yet, she has neither and has NEVER had an attorney. She had two people appointed for a short time to write reports, if you want to call them Guardian Ad Litums, but as soon as they said anything contrary to what the Evildoers demanded, they were both removed immediately from the case. This is all highly illegal! Terri has been denied her rights again and again including her due process rights, her right to have therapy and her right to be brought to full capacity. Swallowing tests have not been done in over TEN YEARS! Melissa


IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

IN AND FOR PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA

PROBATE DIVISION


In Re: The Guardianship of

THERESA MARIE SCHIAVO,

Incapacitated.

___________________________________//

MICHAEL SCHIAVO, as Guardian of

the person of THERESA MARIE SCHIAVO,

Petitioner,

vs.

ROBERT SCHINDLER and MARY

SCHINDLER,

Respondents.

___________________________________//


MOTION FOR CLARIFICATION AND

SUPPLEMENTAL REQUEST FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ORDER



Respondents ROBERT SCHINDLER and MARY SCHINDLER, as Parents and

Next Friends of THERESA MARIE SCHIAVO and through their undersigned counsel, respectfully request this Court to issue a clarification of its order entered September 17,

2003, and to supplement its ruling regarding implementation thereof. In support thereof,

Respondents show unto the Court as follows:

1. By order of September 17, 2003, this Court issued the following order:

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Guardian, Michael Schiavo, shall cause

the removal of the nutrition and hydration tube from the Ward, Theresa Marie

Schiavo, at 2:00 p.m. on the 15th day of October, 2003.

2. Nothing in this motion should be construed as an attack on the substance of the

Court’s ruling hereunder in setting a date for the removal of the nutrition and hydration tube.

3. However, as was pointed out by the United States District Court, Judge Richard

A. Lazzara presiding, this Court’s order does not include any particular guidance regarding the

procedures and process to follow the removal of the nutrition and hydration tube.

4. Respondents’ have contacted counsel for the Guardian and requested that a mutually-agreeable

medical witness be present to observe the surgical removal procedure to ensure the procedure is conducted

in a medically appropriate and humane manner so as to preserve Terri Schiavo’s protected rights…

5. Respondents’ request was denied….

6. Therefore, a genuine issue is in dispute and hereby presented to the Court to clarify whether a medical

witness, mutually agreeable to the parties or in the event the parties cannot agree a medical witness appointed

by this Court, to observe the surgical procedures ordered by this Court and to preserve Terri Schiavo’s protected rights.

7. Respondents have contacted counsel for the Guardian and requested that accommodations be made following

the removal of the nutrition and hydration tube for medical personnel to be given access to Terri Schiavo for

the purpose of [oral feeding] through non-surgical means of the nature available to any quadriplegic or

paraplegic or otherwise incapacitated individuals.

8. Respondents’ request was denied….

9. Therefore, a genuine issue is in dispute and hereby presented to the Court to clarify whether medical personnel

must be granted access to Terri Schiavo for the purpose of [oral feeding] through non-surgical means of the nature

available to any quadriplegic or paraplegic or otherwise incapacitated individuals.

WHEREFORE, Respondents pray this Court clarify its order and supplement its order regarding implementation

by granting Respondents’ request and appointing a medical witness to observe the surgical removal process

and to issue an order granting access for medical personnel to orally feed Terri Schiavo through non-surgical

means following the removal of the nutrition and hydration tube.

Dated: October 14, 2003


John B. Thompson, Attorney


1172 South Dixie Highway, Suite 111

Coral Gables, Florida 33146-2750

Phone: 305-666-4366


Jackpeace@comcast.net


October 16, 2003


The Honorable Jeb Bush

Governor, State of Florida

C/o Governor's General Counsel, Racquel Rodriguez, and Christa Calamas

The Capitol

Tallahassee, Florida Via Fax to 850-488-9810


Re: Execution of Terri Schiavo is "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"



Dear Governor Bush:

I have been asked by the family of Terri Schiavo to do what I can to save her life in light

of your request yesterday for assistance from legal counsel inside and outside your

Administration toward that end.

Governor, you have the power, by the mere stroke of a pen, to prohibit what is, in every

sense, the execution of Terri Schiavo by a means that is both cruel and unusual in

violation of Article I, Section 17 of the Florida Constitution and the Eighth Amendment

to the United States Constitution.



Death by dehydration and starvation is arguably the most brutal, inhumane, and pain-

inducing way to kill any living creature. The United States Department of Agriculture in

its own regulations at 9CFR2.131 prohibits the withholding of food and water from farm

animals. Terri Schiavo is not less than a farm animal.

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