[Iwo Jima]

No, not "end of story."

The grand jury was not given any of the considerable medical testimony. That evidence will be presented in the civil trials AND hopefully to another grand jury.

This story has only just begun.

As to your mother, would you have killed her if she had not requested it or agreed to it, or if she rejected it? These patients were not asked what their desires were. And there is no evidence that they were suffering to the point that they would want to be put out of their misery.

It was definitely Dr. Pou who gave the lethal injections after the hospital administrator told doctors to do so and other doctors and nurses refused. That's how this all become public -- those doctors and nurses went to the authorities with what they witnessed.

[Old Student]

“The grand jury was not given any of the considerable medical testimony.”

You might want to go back and reread the article. There is no way to tell if the grand jury was or was not given that information. Not even to ask the grand jurors, as it is illegal for them to talk about the case.

I would not have killed my mother if she was not asking for it, as I think I made clear. I would most certainly have done so if she had asked. As for did they or did they not ask, how would you (or I) know if we weren’t there? How would you know that they did not ask the doctors or nurses, or any random passer-by? Some doctors and nurses refused, and told on the one they think did it? Did they testify that they saw her do it? If so, why did they not interfere? Or are they just blaming the doctor who they think was willing to give lethal injections because someone did, so it must have been her?

The whole situation stinks, frankly, but I think it’s a lot more over than you know. Among other things, I don’t believe they can call another grand jury for this. Double-jeapordy, that would be.

[hocndoc]

You don’t know what evidence the grand jury received. The bulk of the article is devoted to telling us that no one knows what evidence the grand jury received, other than the testimony of the two nurses.