McKAY v. BERGSTEDT

No. 21207.

801 P.2d 617 (1990)

D. Brian McKAY, Attorney General, State of Nevada, Appellant, v. Kenneth A. BERGSTEDT, Respondent/Cross-Appellant, v. Rex A. BELL, District Attorney of Clark County, Nevada, Cross-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

November 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald H. Haight, Deputy Atty. Gen., Las Vegas, for appellant.

Beckley, Singleton, DeLanoy, Jemison & List, Jack C. Cherry and Daniel F. Polsenberg, Las Vegas, for respondent/cross-appellant.

Janson F. Stewart, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., Clark County, Las Vegas, for cross-respondent.


OPINION

STEFFEN, Justice:

Kenneth Bergstedt was a thirty-one-year-old mentally competent quadriplegic who sought to vindicate on appeal the lower court's decision confirming his right to die. Convinced that Kenneth's position has merit, we affirm.1

Prefatorily, we note that the State has essentially agreed with Kenneth's petition and has accordingly assumed only a token adversarial stance on appeal. Ordinarily, this court...

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