... and conviction becomes nearly impossible. Many states have a hard time grouping doctor-assisted suicide with homicide. Michigan judges refused this linkage of criminality in the case of Michigan v. Campbell. (Crawford pg. 2) In the Campbell case, the court found that the term suicide excludes, by definition, a homicide. Since suicide is not a homicide, then an assisted suicide cannot be considered a homicide. However, the trend ... ...

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