Judge reverses previous ruling
The judge upheld an earlier conservatorship granted to eldest daughter Kerri Kasem
and said she can continue calling the shots during her dying dad’s final days.
BY Nancy Dillon
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The judge overseeing Casey Kasem’s family feud reversed course Tuesday and revoked an earlier decision ordering doctors to artificially feed and hydrate the radio icon.
“You have blood on your hands,” Kasem’s wife of 34-years Jean Kasem said as she stormed out of the Los Angeles courtroom following the decision.
“You just imposed a death sentence,” her lawyer Steve Haney added as he followed her out.
Judge Daniel S. Murphy said he changed his mind after receiving medical records from St. Anthony’s Hospital near Seattle saying the ailing “American Top 40” host was not responding to artificial nutrition and fluids, leading to painful complications.
“It would be acutely harmful for Mr. Kasem to have nutrition and hydration restored at this time,” the judge said. “This was at the advisement of doctors at St. Anthony’s.”
Jean Kasem told the judge her husband expressed his wish to live using eye and eyebrow movements during a five-minute meeting at the hospital last week.
The judge upheld an earlier conservatorship granted to eldest daughter Kerri Kasem and said she can continue calling the shots during her dying dad’s final days.
He said Jean did not act “in the best interests” of her sick, 82-year-old husband when she removed him from a “skilled” California nursing home at 2:30 in the morning May 7 against doctors orders and took him to a private residence in Washington State.
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