Terri Schiavo case

===Schiavo end-of-life wishes===
Given the lack of a [[living will]], a trial was held before Pinellas County Judge [[George Greer]] during the week of January 24, 2000, to determine what Terri Schiavo's wishes would have been regarding life-prolonging procedures.<ref name="greer-02-00"/> Michael Schiavo was represented by attorney [[George Felos]], who had won a landmark right-to-die case before the [[Florida Supreme Court]] in 1990.<ref name="Browning AP">{{cite news|title=Florida Woman Dies Attached to a Tube; Legal Fight Goes On|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/19/us/florida-woman-dies-attached-to-a-tube-legal-fight-goes-on.html|agency=Associated Press|date=July 19, 1989|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312202203/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/19/us/florida-woman-dies-attached-to-a-tube-legal-fight-goes-on.html|archive-date=March 12, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Browning Schiavo">{{cite web|last=Levesque|first=William R.|title=Right-to-die law defined by local case|url=http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/13/Tampabay/Right_to_die_law_defi.shtml|work=St. Petersburg Times|date=October 13, 2003|access-date=November 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203001552/http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/13/Tampabay/Right_to_die_law_defi.shtml|archive-date=December 3, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The trial included testimony from eighteen witnesses regarding her medical condition and her end-of-life wishes. Michael Schiavo claimed that his wife would not want to be kept on a machine where her chance for recovery was minuscule. According to Abstract Appeal Trial Order, her parents "claimed that Terri was a devout [[Roman Catholic]] who would not wish to violate the Church's teachings on [[euthanasia]] by [[Patient refusal of nutrition and hydration|refusing nutrition and hydration]]." Judge Greer issued his order granting the petition for authorization to discontinue artificial life support for Terri Schiavo in February 2000. In this decision, the court found that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state and that she had made reliable oral declarations that she would have wanted the feeding tube removed.<ref name="greer-02-00">{{cite web|url=http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/trialctorder02-00.pdf|title=In re: the guardianship of Theresa Marie Schiavo, Incapacitated", File No. 90-2908GD-003|author=Greer, George W. Circuit Judge|pages=9–10|publisher=Florida Sixth Judicial Circuit|date=February 11, 2000|access-date=January 8, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707075544/http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/trialctorder02-00.pdf|archive-date=July 7, 2011|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> This decision was upheld by the [[Florida Second District Court of Appeal]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/2dcaorder01-01.txt|title=In re Guardianship of Theresa Marie Schiavo, Incapacitated. Robert Schindler and Mary Schindler, Appellants, v. Michael Schiavo, as Guardian of the person of Theresa Marie Schiavo, Appellee, Case Number: 2D00-1269|author=Altenbernd, Chris W. (for The Court)|publisher=Florida Second District Court of Appeal|date=January 24, 2001|access-date=February 6, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707075621/http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/2dcaorder01-01.txt|archive-date=July 7, 2011|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> (2nd DCA) and came to be known by the court as ''Schiavo I'' in its later rulings.<ref>See, for instance p. 6 of [http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/schiavo/32205fjord.pdf US District Court Case No. 8:05-CV-530-T-27TBM (PDF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213190403/http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/schiavo/32205fjord.pdf |date=February 13, 2006 }} p. 6</ref>