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The Terri Schiavo case was a series of court and legislative actions in the United States from 1998 to 2005, regarding the care of Theresa Marie Schiavo (née Schindler) (/ ˈ ʃ aɪ v oʊ /; December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state.
The legislative, executive, and judicial branches, of both the United States federal government and the State of Florida, were involved in the case of Terri Schiavo.In November 1998 Michael Schiavo, husband of Terri Schiavo, first sought permission to remove his wife's feeding tube.
February 25: Terri suffers from a collapse and falls into a coma.; May: Terri emerges from her coma but remains unconscious. Primary physician is Dr. Shah. Dr. Baras, from Bayfront Rehabilitation, a rehab consult, recommends that she be transferred to Mediplex or Hardy Memorial.
In another case, Michael Mitchell, of Rockford, Illinois, attempted to rob a Florida gun store as part of an attempt to rescue Terri Schiavo. He selected Randall's Firearms, which was located near Schiavo's hospice in Seminole, Florida. Mitchell first entered the store and spoke with owner Randy McKenzie, and then departed.
Terri Schiavo was a Florida woman who, after collapsing from cardiac arrest in 1990 at age 26, entered a persistent vegetative state. Her plight became the subject of legal proceedings and intense ...
The Palm Sunday Compromise, formally known as the Act for the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo (Pub. L. 109–3 (text)), is an Act of Congress passed on March 21, 2005, to allow the case of Terri Schiavo to be moved into a federal court.
In this file photo, George Felos, then the attorney for Michael Schiavo, Terri Schiavo's husband, talks to the media after hearing the results of her autopsy report June 15, 2005 in Dunedin, Florida.
In 2012, investigators seemingly brought long-awaited closure to one of the nation's oldest and most high-profile kidnapping cases, solving it after more than 50 years.