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Injuring the health of the legal profession

Injuring the health of the legal profession

Adam J. MacLeod

Earlier I wrote about a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada conscripting Canadian lawyers and judges into the machinery of assisted suicide. I ended with the assessment that lawyers and judges will be litigating and deciding which human beings will be entitled to the protection of the laws against homicide and which are worthy of being killed. Where a doctor is willing to assist a suicide but only if he is exempt from criminal punishment for doing so, the judgments in those cases will be but-for causes of the unjust deaths of the patients killed.

Does this mean that conscientious lawyers and judges in Canada (and Oregon, Washington …) must resign their offices to preserve the integrity of their conscience? I think it depends upon the legal standard adopted to determine who is eligible for the exemption from criminal law.

Timely and topical tunes on tap at Jazz at the Arsenal
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Timely and topical tunes on tap at Jazz at the Arsenal

Tom Nutile

It once made ammunition for the U.S. military. Now it makes music – and sculptures, and paintings. Where once there was the clang-clang-clang of metal being forged into bullets, there is now the ping-ping-a-ding of a ride cymbal setting the pace for a saxophone solo.

The Arsenal Center for the Arts, on the site of a former munitions arsenal in Watertown, is home to theater, creative art classes, visual art exhibitions, artist forums, and musical performances. On one Monday night a month, it is home to the Jazz at the Arsenal series, featuring faculty members from the renowned Berklee College of Music.

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