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STATE v. FINAL EXIT NETWORK, INC.

A15-1826.

889 N.W.2d 296 (2016)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. FINAL EXIT NETWORK, INC., Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Filed December 19, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori Swanson , Attorney General, St. Paul, Minnesota; and James C. Backstrom , Dakota County Attorney, Phillip D. Prokopowicz , Chief Deputy County Attorney, Elizabeth M. Swank , Assistant County Attorney, Hastings, Minnesota (for respondent).

Robert Rivas (pro hac vice), Tallahassee, Florida; and Paul Engh , Minneapolis, Minnesota (for appellant).

Randall D. Tigue , Randall Tigue Law Office, P.A., Golden Valley, Minnesota (for amicus curiae Atheists for Human Rights).

Edward Rudofsky (pro hac vice), Zane and Rudofsky, New York, New York; and Sam Glover , Minneapolis, Minnesota (for amicus curiae First Amendment Lawyers Association).

Patrick C. Elliott , Madison, Wisconsin (for amicus curiae Freedom from Religion Foundation).

Considered and decided by Smith, Tracy M., Presiding Judge; Larkin, Judge; and Rodenberg, Judge.

OPINION

Appellant Final Exit Network, Inc. (Final Exit) appeals its conviction of assisting in a suicide. Final Exit argues that Minn. Stat. § 609.215, subd. 1 (2014), which makes it a crime for a person to intentionally assist another in taking the other's life, is facially unconstitutional under the First...

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