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Judge Rejects Trial in Terri Schiavo Case NewsMax.com WiresTAMPA, Fla. – A judge Friday refused to order a new trial to determine whether severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo would want to be kept alive artificially. The ruling in the long-running case moves Mrs. Shiavo's husband one step closer to having her feeding tube removed. But Circuit Judge George Greer in Clearwater blocked removal of the tube until at least Dec. 6 so Schiavo's parents can decide whether to appeal. Story Continues Below Mrs. Schiavo has been at the center of a bitter dispute between her husband and her parents. Bob and Mary Schindler had asked Greer for the new trial to determine if their daughter, who was a practicing Roman Catholic when she collapsed and suffered brain damage 14 years ago, would still choose to have her feeding tube removed based on recent statements by Pope John Paul II regarding people in vegetative states. The pope said people in vegetative states still have the right to nutrition and health care. Nothing in Writing Her husband, Michael Schiavo, convinced Greer in a trial in 2000 that his wife had said before she fell ill that she would never want to be kept alive artificially. The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request to reconsider its decision striking down a special state law designed to save Mrs. Schiavo's life.
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