A question from "Morningstar."

"In the movies, it seems you can get away with anything if you have a contract allowing you to do it. If we both agree to sign a contract that allowed me to shoot you in the foot and I gave you 1 million in return, would that be legal?

Now let's say you feel that you are a woman trapped in a man's body, and as a legal general surgeon, you pay me to remove functional parts of your body because you feel you no longer need them, and we make a contract to do just that. Is that legal?

What if we made a contract for your life for a billion dollars given to your family? Would that be legal? Then let's twist it slightly and say you're dying from cancer and you begged me to euthanize you and we put it into a contract. Would that be legal?"

A lot to unpack. Here it is in this episode.

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Stephen E. Palmer, Esq. has been practicing criminal defense almost exclusively since 1995. He has represented people in federal, state, and local courts in Ohio and elsewhere.

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