CNN Anderson Cooper 360 January 9, 2014 01:17:00
We will follow the law. >> i think they got it wrong. >> reporter: tom mayo was one of the advisers who helped write this law 15 years ago and which was signed by then texas governor george w. bush. the southern methodist university law professor says if munoz is indeed brain-dead like her family says, then the hospital has the law all wrong. >> if she's brain-dead she's already dead. so letting her die isn't really the concept. but can he say take her off the ventilator? i believe he can. surrogate decisionmakers make those kinds of decision with their doctors every day. >> reporter: marlise ...