Read more: http://home.mytelus.com/telusen/portal/ ... D=NationalMINNEAPOLIS - A former Minnesota nurse convicted of aiding suicides by trolling Internet chat rooms and encouraging depressed people to kill themselves could see little or no time behind bars when he is sentenced Wednesday.
William Melchert-Dinkel, 48, was convicted in March of two counts of aiding suicide in the deaths of an English man and a Canadian woman. Under state law, he faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $30,000 fine for each count, but worksheets prepared by prosecutors call for much less — and presume that a prison sentence would be stayed.
That is just sad!
