Now, given this is GQ, I don’t want to argue IF and SHOULD this thing happen. But should Terri Schiavo die, is there anything her husband could be prosecuted for? Now, obviously, the courts have given their go-ahead to pull the feeding tube, but with all these laws passing so suddenly, accusations of abuse and outright murder (injecting insulin into her while she was bedridden), and so on, I was curious if any relatively established laws or facts could (again, legally) support any crime whatsoever against him.
I wonder if there would even be an autopsy. Usually you don’t have to have one if you’ve been under a doctor’s care, but I would think that the family would likley ask for one.
If that turned up anything unusual, I would think that the authorities could then decide on a lot of things.
I have a very hard time believing he’d be prosecuted for anything. Why would they wait this long?
The fact that the bone scan was taken a year after her collapse pretty much exhonorates Michael; you couldn’t prove that he caused those injuries. That was dealt with a while ago. In any case the evidence is dead set against abuse. She showed no signs of being abused when she was hospitalized in 1990 and the parents’ repeated claims of abuse (which came very late in the game) have been rejected by the courts.
Well, the parents could (and, I’m guessing, will) sue Michael for “wrongful death” or something. It doesn’t mean they’d win, or that they’d necessarily even have to have any sound legal ground (I mean, look at the cases of guys suing Satan, or prisoners suing themselves for monetary damages and asking the government to pay on their behalf), but they could do it.
Responses lead opne to believe that a number of the fractures were the result of CPR and that soem ofthe others were old ones from living life.
As to the fracures other than tha CPR induced ones, its seems the report of the bone scan’s not necessarily indicative of husband induced trauma as opposed to activity induced traumas.
