Professor Feeney Comments on Assisted Suicide Case for Stockton Record
Professor Floyd Feeney commented on the case of June Hartley, a Lodi woman who faces charged of assisted suicide in connection with the death of her brother, for the Stockton Record. Professor Feeney told the Record that prosecutors may run into problems if the jury is sympathetic to Hartley, who is accused of helping her brother, a prominent local musician, commit suicide in the wake of a debilitating stroke.
"The question I would ask if I were the prosecutor would be, how sympathetic is the jury going to be?" said Professor Feeney.
Floyd Feeney is the Homer G. and Ann Berryhill Angelo Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law and the winner of the Law School's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1986 and 2008. The author of seven books and numerous articles, Feeney has received awards from the National Institute of Justice and the California Probation, Parole, and Correctional Association, and is a nationally recognized scholar on election law.