The circuit court, of Oakland County, michigan, decides people v. Kevorkian: the jury finds Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, not guilty of physician assisted suicide, in the deaths of Thomas Hyde, a young man suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease..  This is the first time in which he has been acquitted through Jury Nullification (the act of a fully informed Jury, empowered through self-knowledge, to judge the decrees and the evidence in question).

       [restored 8/20/2023]

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11/8/1994                   3/8/1996                   6/4/1999                   1/17/2006

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$36,167,124,467,492

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