article_snippet: The court heard how Unemployed couple, from Portland, Oregon, had Unemployed couple signed a suicide note saying Unemployed couple wanted to to die on March 2, 2013.
article_snippet: This is not a Death With Dignity case,' the prosecutor said.
article_snippet: The judge also instructed jurors that Oregon law doesn't define murder as assisting another in committing suicide, such as handing someone a loaded gun.
article_snippet: But state law does define murder as committing the actual killing, The judge said -- actually pulling the trigger even if the person wanted to die.
article_snippet: However defence expert and former medical examiner
article_snippet: Lawyer for the defence Kasla Rutledge added: 'People who are murdered in their sleep by their husbands don't leave suicide notes.'