March 12, 2005

Terry Schiavo update

I had written about Terry's plight here before and her parents have an excellent website with videos of her responding to things in the room and interacting with people. Whatever her husband may say, she is not brain dead, damaged yes but dead no. On March 10th (last Thursday), a businessman stated that he would give Terry's husband One Million Dollars if he would drop his attempts to have her killed and transfer custodial care to her parents. The businessman is Mr. Robert Herring, Sr. and he is being represented by Attorney Gloria Allred. Here are some excerpts from Ms. Allred's statement:
We are here today to announce that our client, Robert Herring, Sr., is making an offer to Terri Schiavo's husband, Michael Schiavo, which could save Terri's life.

Terri Schiavo is currently in a coma in Florida. Michael Schiavo has asked the court for permission to disconnect her feeding tube, which would result in her death. Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schiavo, have opposed the request. After a long court battle the court has set March 18, 2005 for the removal of Terri's feeding tube.
And the offer:
He contacted me and retained my law firm to convey the following offer to Terri's husband. If Mike Schiavo agrees to transfer the legal right to decide all of Terri's current and future medical decisions to Terri's parents, then Mr. Herring will pay Mr. Schiavo the amount of 1 million dollars (subject to court approval of Terri's parents as her conservators or guardians).

The million dollars was deposited into my law firm's client trust account yesterday and this morning we communicated this million dollar offer in writing to Mr. Schiavo's attorney.

This offer will remain open until Monday, March 14, 2005 at 5:00 p.m.
Emphasis mine - this is not an if/maybe/some-time-in-the-future sort of offer, the cash is sitting in the lawyers trust account now and the offer times out this Monday. Mr. Schiavo, please take this and give Terry a chance at some sort of life. Don't let your personal greed overshadow what is right... The Blog Straight Up with Sherri has been covering this issue -- Sherri is down in Florida now working to try to save Terry. One of her guest authors posted this update to the Herring offer and a reader had an interesting comment to make... Here is Sherri's guest author:
Felos calls Herring offer "offensive".
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

George Felos, attorney for Michael Schiavo, tells Robert Herring, a oncerned California businessman, that the latter's offer of One Million Dollars to let Terri Schiavo live is "offensive". This is the official response to a story highlighted by Sherri on Thursday evening.
And the two readers comments that made me go Hmmmm...
  1. No, it's not the money Schiavo wants, he's trying to stop Terri from spilling something she knows about him.
  2. I couldn't agree more. I suspect that what is really going on in MS's mind is...."God Forbid Terri regains enough verbal skills to say "He did this" while pointing at Michael. No amount of money is worth the death penalty!!!!
Posted by DaveH at March 12, 2005 5:11 PM