1. euthanasia
... have a hard time grouping physician-assisted suicide with homicide. The case which Michigan judges cite in refusing this linkage of criminality is the People of the State of Michigan v. Campbell . 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 deemed a homicide. At the time of ... the appellate courts hearing of the Campbell appeal, there was no other codified law expressing what crime an assisted suicide would fall under and the homicide charges were dismissed. Anti-a...
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