Barbara Mancini: Innocent of assisted suicide: Nurse accused of aiding father’s death has case thrown out

February 14, 2014

(Huffington Post) – A Pennsylvania judge threw out an assisted suicide charge Tuesday against a nurse accused of handing her 93-year-old terminally ill father a bottle of morphine, a decision that brought elation and relief to the defendant and her family one year to the day after his death. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office failed to prove a crime occurred and based its case against Barbara Mancini on speculation and guesswork, Schuylkill County Judge Jacqueline L. Russell said in a 47-page opinion.