Eugene Volokh of the law blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, argues that the verdict was just when a judge found that a former nurse inciting suicides during Internet chats was committing “Lethal Advocacy” not protected by the First Amendment and had therefore committed felonies in the suicides of two people.
Volokh agreed with the judge that the state had a compelling interest to protect human life, “…given that solicitation of the murder — and even of lesser crimes involving personal injury — of a specific person is doubtless unprotected [under the First Amendment], solicitation of suicide said to a specific person, with the intention of helping bringing about the suicide, would be, too.” -db
From The Volokh Conspiracy, March 16, 2011, by Eugene Volokh.