Talk:George Greer

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POV?[edit]

Um, NPOV anyone?

24.250.246.178rhesusman March 27 2005 5:40pm UTC

What do you have a problem with? Postdlf 19:47, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I think the article has been changed since I last looked at it. It's fine now, but before it was pretty hostile to Judge Greer. It just criticized his decisions without explaining his reasoning or context. The second paragraph in particular looked very different. I don't have any emotional involvement in this or anything, I was just "passing through" as it were and thought that the article was kind of hostile.

24.250.246.178rhesusman March 27 2005 20:30 UTC

I agree—the second paragraph was just a POV attack on his decisions in the Schiavo case. I'm not at all familiar with the domestic abuse case, so that may have been mischaracterized now as well, but at least now the reference to it no longer functions as a rhetorical attack. Postdlf 20:27, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

User:67.173.188.6 April 14 2005 21:49:24 UTC

The information regarding Judge Greer's disability is not intended for the purpose of promoting bias. This information is relevant, like it or not. What is not relevant is commentary about how judges weigh their evidence. (Which was inaccurately described in a previous revision.) This suggests that the information regarding Judge Greer being legally blind should be discounted and not be considered as significant. Is it possible that blind people (or others with disabilities) can be can be effective judges? Yes. In fact there are other accomplished judges who are blind. I have been in the courtroom of one such judge. Frankly, whether or not blind people can make effective judges is not the question. That would more appropriately be addressed in another article about people with disabilities. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabled) Is it possible to include additional clarifying information to provide perspective without diminishing other legitimate information about Judge Greer? Yes, I have done so in the latest revision. I have noted that blindness does not disqualify one to act as a judge, nor should it. The fact that this judge has critics and that they have expressed their concerns is also relevant.

So, are we just going to bash the "hostile" view towards Greer in this page? I think he deserves it! Because of him, a helpless, innocent lady (who DID want to live) was mercilessly killed! I can't believe all we can do is defend Greer! Scorpionman 19:34, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

VFD[edit]

On 2 April 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/George Greer for a record of the discussion. – AB CD 20:39, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Is Greer a Conservative?[edit]

This bio [1] has nothing in it that indicates that he's a conservative or even described himself as a conservative. In reading on Greer, I see that label "conservative" appears to apply only to give the impression that his decisions in the Schiavo case were motivated by a conservative judicial philsophy which is an unsupported point of view these articles push.

I propose to remove the conservative label and will do so unless it can be shown here how he merits this label. patsw 13:16, 24 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest allegations[edit]

Would the following be noteable?

Conservative online news site WorldNetDaily reported allegations by The Center for Reclaiming America and the Empire Journal that George Greer received a contribution of $250 for his 2004 re-election campaign from Felos & Felos, the law firm of George Felos, and that other pro-Michael Schiavo lawyers gave money for his re-election campaign. Judges are not required to recuse themselves in such circumstances, but a 2002 poll by the American Bar Association said that 84 percent of all Americans are concerned that the impartiality of judges is compromised by their need to raise campaign contributions.

WorldNetDaily: [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43493 Michael Schiavo lawyer gave to judge's campaign] March 25, 2005

Andjam 03:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

POV links[edit]

Looks like someone put some links to some POV websites on this page. This page is about Greer, people, not Schiavo. Thank you.--Dr.michael.benjamin 05:11, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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