Minnesota court strikes down law against advising suicide
[JURIST] The Minnesota Court of Appeals [official website] ruled
[opinion, PDF] Monday that a state law criminalizing speech that
"advises" and "encourages" another's suicide is unconstitutional. In the
suit filed against the national right-to-die group Final Exit Network
[advocacy website] after they were charged with the 2007 suicide of a
Minnesota woman, the state argued that speech advising or encouraging
suicide is unprotected because it is similar to speech integral to
criminal conduct. However, the three-judge panel found "no long...
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