Justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday peppered a defense lawyer and a prosecutor with questions about a state law that-while not prohibiting helping someone take his life-makes it a felony to publicly offer such assistance prior to rendering it.
Robert Rivas of Tallahassee’s Sachs Sax Caplan, representing the Final Exit Network and four members of the organization, had scarcely begun arguing that the law’s provisions amount to a “content-based” proscription of protected speech in violation of the First Amendment when he was interrupted.
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