SASKATOON, Sept 17 (LSN) – The Canadian Press reported yesterday that Robert Latimer’s appeal of his conviction in the gassing his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, will begin on October 19 in the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. Latimer is appealing the two-year sentence he received last fall for Tracy’s killing. Pro-lifers and disability groups are deeply concerned about the impact of this case on the legalization of assisted suicide as Mark Brayford, Latimer’s lawyer, charges that Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Ted Noble “erred in law in not charging the jury that they could find that Robert Latimer had the legal right to decide to commit suicide for his daughter by virtue of he and his wife being her surrogate decision makers.”
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