Colorado Man Inherits Fortune After Euthanizing Healthy Mother with Plastic Bag

A Colorado man who suffocated his healthy 91-year-old mother to death by placing a plastic bag over her head has avoided prison with a slap on the wrist and is now set to inherit a fortune from his dead mom’s estate.

Instead of jailing David Norton for his crime, a liberal judge ordered him to donate $25,000 to an organization that promotes “assisted suicide.”

In a cushy plea deal, Norton, 68, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by aiding suicide and tampering with physical evidence after the death of his mother, Mildred Roller.

Norton and his sister, Kim Roller, were accused of conspiring to end the elderly woman’s life.

However, their mother was not terminally ill and had not been declared mentally incompetent.

According to an autopsy reviewed by a grand jury, Mildred Roller died from “asphyxia due to a bag over the head and displacement of oxygen by nitrogen gas.”

Despite those facts, neither Norton nor his sister will serve time behind bars.

Judge Questions Whether Killing Should Have Been Charged

Boulder County District Court Judge Dea Lindsey sentenced Norton to two years of probation and ordered him to donate $25,000 to a medical aid-in-dying charity.

Kim Roller reportedly received an identical sentence.

Lindsey openly questioned whether Norton should have faced criminal charges at all.

“I go back and forth on whether this should be a charge at all,” Lindsey said.

“I think it’s a philosophical issue.”

The remarkable comments came despite Colorado law limiting legal physician-assisted suicide to qualifying circumstances.

Mildred Roller was not terminally ill.

Yet the punishment for illegally euthanizing her included financially supporting an organization associated with the same practice.

Notably, Judge Lindsey’s judicial profile states that she previously worked on “dependency and neglect” cases for Boulder County.

Mother Was Suffocated With Nitrogen Gas

The Boulder County Coroner’s Office determined that the 91-year-old died after oxygen was displaced by nitrogen while a plastic bag covered her head.

Dr. Meredith Frank wrote in the autopsy opinion that Roller died a harrowing death.

She died from “asphyxia due to a bag over the head and displacement of oxygen by nitrogen gas,” Frank revealed.

The autopsy also established that she “did not have a terminal illness and had not been found incompetent,” according to the Colorado Hometown Weekly.

Norton ultimately accepted a plea agreement with the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office rather than face trial on the original allegations.

Defendants Stand to Benefit from Estate

The case becomes even more controversial because both defendants were positioned to benefit financially from Mildred Roller’s estate.

According to the Colorado Hometown Weekly, her will directed that her children receive equal shares of her estate.

The estate reportedly included a savings account containing approximately $655,540.

The issue has triggered a backlash over the inheritance Norton will ultimately receive.

Many are questioning whether Colorado law should block his ability to collect from the estate because of his conviction.

Nevertheless, the potential financial benefit has added another troubling dimension to a case in which two people admitted participating in the death of an elderly relative and avoided incarceration.

Assisted-Suicide Advocate Condemns Case

Colorado law allows physician-assisted suicide under specific legal conditions, but those rules did not apply to Mildred Roller.

Live Action’s Bridget Sielicki condemned the broader practice.

“There is never a situation in which it is appropriate to help a person end his or her own life, even if sick or disabled,” Sielicki said.

The sentence now leaves Norton and Roller on probation rather than behind bars.

And in one of the case’s strangest twists, a punishment imposed for illegally helping end a woman’s life will send $50,000 combined to an organization associated with legal assisted suicide.

A healthy 91-year-old woman was suffocated with a plastic bag and nitrogen gas.

The people who helped do it walked out of court without a prison sentence.

Source: https://slaynews.com/colorado-man-inherits-fortune-euthanizing-healthy-mother-plastic-bag/

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