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March 26, 2005
Those Pesky Details
An interesting point on the Schiavo case from an email Steve Sailor received (via Powerline):
Something that interests me about the Terri Schiavo case, and that doesn't seem to have gotten much media attention: The whole case rests on the fact that the Schindlers (Terri's parents) were totally outlawyered by the husband (Michael Schiavo) at the trial court level. [...]
This fact is of crucial importance -- and it's one often not fully appreciated by the media, who like to focus on the drama of cases going to the big, powerful appeals courts: Once a trial court enters a judgment into the record, that judgment's findings become THE FACTS of the case, and can only be overturned if the fact finder (in this case, the judge) acted capriciously (i.e., reached a conclusion that had essentially no basis in fact). [emphasis mine]
I think this is a really important background item; it's the type of information that should be provided dependably and without fanfare by our news media. And most of us, i.e., the news consumers, should be thinking critically enough to ask the question in the first place.
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