A court has acquitted a Dutch doctor of wrongdoing for drugging and euthanizing an elderly dementia patient who may not have wanted to die.

Judges at the Hague District Court in the Netherlands resolved the three-year case on Wednesday, according to Medical Xpress. Dozens of people attending the hearing applauded after the ruling was delivered.

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