PEOPLE EX REL. OAKLAND COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY v. KEVORKIAN

Docket No. 138155.

210 Mich. App. 601 (1995)

534 N.W.2d 172

PEOPLE EX REL OAKLAND COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY v. KEVORKIAN

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 12, 1995, at 10:30 A.M.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Richard Thompson, Prosecuting Attorney, and Michael J. Modelski, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Fieger, Fieger & Schwartz, P.C. (by Geoffrey N. Fieger and Pamela A. Hamway), for the defendant.

Amicus Curiae:

Beier Howlett (by Daniel C. Devine, Jr.), for Hemlock of Michigan.

Before: MURPHY, P.J., and MICHAEL J. KELLY and SAAD, JJ.


MURPHY, P.J.

The issue before this Court is whether the trial court erred in permanently enjoining defendant from using or providing "any of his `suicide machines,' or other similar devices, contrivances, or other modalities or drugs (including nonprescription drugs) on, or to, any persons seeking to end a human life, or conducting any acts to help a patient commit suicide regardless of the modality employed." We hold...

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