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Canada Supreme Court to address whether assisted suicide can ever be murder

Alleged suicide kit salesman files in Supreme Court to contest whether assisted suicide can ever be murder

Lawyers representing the Ontario man accused of selling hundreds of suicide kits with deadly effect around the globe have filed to intervene in a case in Canada’s highest court, arguing there is no way he can be charged with murder under Canadian law.

The question of what Kenneth Law’s culpability for 14 deaths in Ontario of people who consumed his poisonous products may ultimately be settled by Canada’s Supreme Court in a case that observers say has the potential to decide one of the country’s largest set of murder charges as well as impact Canadian assisted suicide laws.

Read more at CTV News.