 The defendants conceded that while volunteer exit guides give their clients information about how to ensure a swift, pain free death, they do not physically take part in the suicides, and they maintain that prohibitions against informing clients how to take their lives violate of the free speech clause in the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights.The Minnesota case resulted in the first and only conviction of either Final Exit Network or any of its personnel.In the Minnesota trial, it was established that Final Exit Network personnel did not provide any physical assistance in the "suicide" of the "victim."