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The state's highest court dismissed the emergency petition Saturday night, saying it didn't have jurisdiction. On Thursday, the same court refused to hear the case.

The lawyer for Schiavo's parents said the legal fight to prolong the brain-damaged woman's life is drawing to an end.

This is the third legal blow Schiavo's parents have received within the course of 24 hours. Their motions were also denied earlier in the day by Circuit Court Judge George Greer in Clearwater, Florida, and Friday by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia.

Police 'showdown' averted

BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER

cmarbin@herald.com

Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo was not to be removed from her hospice, a team of state agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube reinserted -- but they stopped short when local police told them they would enforce the judge's order, The Herald has learned.

Agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told police in Pinellas Park, the small town where Schiavo lies at Hospice Woodside, on Thursday that they were on the way to take her to a hospital to resume her feeding.

For a brief period, local police, who have officers at the hospice to keep protesters out, prepared for what sources called ``a showdown.''

In the end, the squad from the FDLE and the Department of Children & Families backed down, apparently concerned about confronting local police outside the hospice.

''We told them that unless they had the judge with them when they came, they were not going to get in,'' said a source with the local police.

''The FDLE called to say they were en route to the scene,'' said an official with the city police who requested anonymity. ``When the sheriff's department and our department told them they could not enforce their order, they backed off.''

The incident,known only to a few and related to The Herald by three different sources involved in Thursday's events, underscores the intense emotion and murky legal terrain that the Schiavo case has created. It also shows that agencies answering directly to Gov. Jeb Bush had planned to use a wrinkle in Florida law that would have allowed them to legally get around the judge's order. The exception in the law allows public agencies to freeze a judge's order whenever an agency appeals it.

R00k wrote:Check this shit out.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11233240.htm

Police 'showdown' averted

BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER

cmarbin@herald.com

Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo was not to be removed from her hospice, a team of state agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube reinserted -- but they stopped short when local police told them they would enforce the judge's order, The Herald has learned.

Agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told police in Pinellas Park, the small town where Schiavo lies at Hospice Woodside, on Thursday that they were on the way to take her to a hospital to resume her feeding.

For a brief period, local police, who have officers at the hospice to keep protesters out, prepared for what sources called ``a showdown.''

In the end, the squad from the FDLE and the Department of Children & Families backed down, apparently concerned about confronting local police outside the hospice.

''We told them that unless they had the judge with them when they came, they were not going to get in,'' said a source with the local police.

''The FDLE called to say they were en route to the scene,'' said an official with the city police who requested anonymity. ``When the sheriff's department and our department told them they could not enforce their order, they backed off.''

The incident,known only to a few and related to The Herald by three different sources involved in Thursday's events, underscores the intense emotion and murky legal terrain that the Schiavo case has created. It also shows that agencies answering directly to Gov. Jeb Bush had planned to use a wrinkle in Florida law that would have allowed them to legally get around the judge's order. The exception in the law allows public agencies to freeze a judge's order whenever an agency appeals it.

Good ol bushie bro senior trying to send out a squad to bypass a court's order. As if it weren't all ridiculous enough already.

Canidae wrote:The settlement money remaining, the interest from 13 years and the fact that Terry has been cared for for free where she is at and Medicare has been paying for the rest.
Do you honestly believe that sharks account of the money and that there is hardly any left??

Canidae wrote:No it doesn't. The guy is an egotistical bastard and would never accept any money on their terms and his payoff from the settlement money is from her will when she DIES.
He'll probably go the route of a book and movies rights also that wouldn't sell well if he caved now on his version of how this has to be.
The positive cash flow begins any day now.

R00k wrote:She's going to die, one way or another, and to conservatives across the country, her death will be the fault of liberals thanks to the republicons' shrewd "framing" of the issue.

Sweet!

Canidae wrote:No it doesn't. The guy is an egotistical bastard and would never accept any money on their terms and his payoff from the settlement money is from her will when she DIES.
He'll probably go the route of a book and movies rights also that wouldn't sell well if he caved now on his version of how this has to be.
The positive cash flow begins any day now.

losCHUNK wrote:isnt this like euthanasia though?

denzii wrote:She died years ago.