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FINAL EXIT NETWORK, INC. v. STATE

No. S11A1960.

722 S.E.2d 722 (2012)

290 Ga. 508

FINAL EXIT NETWORK, INC. et al. v. STATE of Georgia.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

February 6, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce S. Harvey, Peters, Rubin & Sheffield, Robert G. Rubin, Garland, Samuel & Loeb, Donald F. Samuel, L. David Wolfe, Sachs, Sax & Caplan, Robert Rivas, for appellants.

Penny A. Penn, Dist. Atty., Samuel S. Olens, Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

THOMPSON, Justice.

In 1994, the Georgia legislature enacted OCGA § 16-5-5(b), which provides that any person "who publicly advertises, offers, or holds himself or herself out as offering that he or she will intentionally and actively assist another person in the commission of suicide and commits any overt act to further that purpose is guilty of a felony." Violation of the statute is punishable by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years. OCGA...

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