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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (105543)3/23/2005 11:18:09 AM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (2) of 793745
 
The dissent fails to articulate the obvious question: Why didn't the attorneys for Schiavo ask for a trial which would have required the district court to order that Schiavo be fed and hydrated?

If I represented Schiavo, I'd file again in the Tampa federal court, asking for a full trial on the merits as the newly-enacted statute allows.

I'm dumbfounded by what seems to be the incompetence of the family's counsel.

I haven't followed this case as closely as I could, but I have carefully read the statute and the pleading filed in the Florida federal court. Since the relief to which to which the family seems entitled, i.e., a full-blown trial not simply a review of the state courts' actions, has not been requested, I don't see any reason why the family is foreclosed from seeking it now.

I am on the one hand in principle opposed to Congress's actions. On the other hand, I hate to see legal incompetence so baldly exhibited.
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