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March 21, 2005
Schiavo Update
Media reports, as I suspected, haven't been entirely accurate. Terry Schiavo has had, in the past at least, a temporary guardian ad litem appointed. You can read his December 2003 report here. (Link courtesy The Corner)
I don't think it resolves the key issues--Terry's wishes or her current mental function--but it does contain a case history up to that point and some interesting observations.
Definitely worth reading.
I think I read somewhere that this attorney's recommendations were somehow suspect because he is a well-known 'right-to-die' advocate. That doesn't necessarily mean that somehow his personal beliefs overrode his ethical obligation to ascertain and articulate the wishes of his client. Absent any evidence to the contrary, and I don't see any in his report, I would assume he fufilled his ethical obligations.
Posted by Rita at March 21, 2005 11:51 AM