Word: michigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Richard Jackson New Baltimore, Michigan...
...another case testing the murky limits of both parents' rights and a patient's right to die, Gregory Messenger-the Michigan father charged with manslaughter for having unhooked his severely ill, premature baby from a respirator-was acquitted by a jury. Messenger said he was forced to act after doctors refused to heed the family's wishes. "We did what was best for our baby," said his wife...
...other day, the obscenely long list unwinding from Michigan Governor John Engler's hands would not be one he would be eager to display. It seemed to extend forever. Aid to Families with Dependent Children was one entry; food stamps was another. In all, it contained 335 items, each a federal program. To Engler and his gubernatorial colleagues, each also represented a different federal bureaucracy to which he had to kowtow; a different process in which he had no say; and a specific amount of money he had to pay out of his state's treasury, whether he liked...
...another case testing the murky limits of parents' rights and a patient's right to die, Gregory Messenger--the Michigan father charged with manslaughter for having unhooked his severely ill, premature baby from a respirator--was acquitted by a jury. Messenger said he was forced to act after doctors refused to heed the family's wishes. ``We did what was best for our baby,'' said his wife...
Jake Baker, a quiet, bespectacled University of Michigan sophomore, has just learned that a little creative writing on the Internet can lead to jail -- at least, when it's a fantasy about raping, torturing and murdering a real person. Baker, 20, was arrested in Ann Arbor for having posted a lurid sex-murder fantasy on the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories last November. "Torture is foreplay, rape is romance, snuff (killing) is climax," one of Baker's messages read. Ordinarily, the story might never drawn outside attention, but Baker got into trouble for giving his fictional victim the name of a real...