Related: Dinkel, Part Deux
"Judge convicts ex-nurse of assisting suicide" Associated Press September 10, 2014
MINNEAPOLIS — An ex-nurse who admitted going online and encouraging people to kill themselves was convicted Tuesday of assisting the suicide of an English man and attempting to assist in the suicide of a Canadian woman, following a legal battle that has spanned more than four years and led to the reversal of part of a Minnesota law that outlaws the practice.
All I said was "Jump, you Wall Street bastards."
Rice County District Judge Thomas Neuville ruled that the state proved William Melchert-Dinkel, 52, of Faribault, assisted in the suicide of Mark Drybrough, 32, of Coventry, England. He said the state failed to prove Melchert-Dinkel’s assistance was a direct cause of the suicide of Nadia Kajouji, 18, of Brampton, Ontario, but found him guilty on a lesser charge of attempting to help her take her life.
Neuville scheduled a sentencing hearing for Oct. 15.
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