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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Attorney Geoffrey Fieger said Thursday he has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the city of Southfield and four of its paramedics on behalf of a woman who was declared dead and left at a Detroit funeral home for hours before anyone realized she was still alive. Fieger said he filed the suit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The suit names the city and four city employees, Michael Storms, Scott Rickard, Phillip Mulligan and Jake Kroll. The woman, Timesha Beauchamp, 20, was in a body bag for at least two...

PROGRESSIVE WANTS TO RESCUE MOTOR CITY WITH SEX AND DRUGS Could Detroit become America’s version of Amsterdam? As far as oft-mayoral candidate Geoffrey Fieger is concerned, why not give it a shot? Feiger, who gained notoriety as Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian’s attorney, believes that legalizing pot and prostitution would attract young people to Detroit, which would turn the decaying city around “in five minutes.” “I could turn it around in five minutes. I’d shovel the snow and I’d clean the streets and parks. Then, I’d tell the police department to leave marijuana alone and don’t spend one dime trying to...

A 7-year-old girl was shot and killed when an officer's gun went off during a struggle with a woman in a house where Detroit police were searching for a suspect in the slaying of a teenager, MyFoxDetroit.com reported....

DETROIT - A family in Detroit mourns the loss of a seven-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed by police during a raid. The death of Aiyanna Jones is making national headlines, and there are currently many questions. How could something like this happen? What went on inside an east side Detroit home early Sunday morning? Relatives of Aiyanna met with attorney Geoffrey Fieger on Monday and re-created the scene for his investigators. The girl was sleeping on a couch around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 16 when officers with the Detroit Police Special Response Team threw a flash grenade through...

DETROIT -- Police who carried out a raid on a family home that left a 7-year-old girl dead over the weekend were accompanied by a camera crew for a reality television show, and an attorney says video of the siege contradicts the police account of what happened. Geoffrey Fieger, an attorney for the family of young Aiyana Jones, said he has seen three or four minutes of video of the raid, although he declined to say whether it was shot by the crew for the A&E series "The First 48," which has been shadowing Detroit homicide detectives for months. Police...

DETROIT (AP) -- Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, best known for representing assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, was indicted on charges of conspiring to make more than $125,000 in illegal contributions to the 2004 presidential campaign of Democrat John Edwards. The indictment was returned Aug. 21 and unsealed Friday. It names both Fieger and Vernon Johnson, a partner in Fieger's Southfield-based law firm.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- Geoffrey Fieger owns homes in Bloomfield Hills and the Caribbean, is a frequent commentator on national cable shows and makes a lucrative living using his theatrical style to win big verdicts in high-profile cases. But in the past three months, Fieger has run into legal troubles of his own that cloud the future of the state's most famous lawyer. The current problem is a federal investigation looking into whether he illegally reimbursed members of his law practice who contributed to 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.   "I fully expect to be indicted by a grand jury,...

Fieger to run for attorney general SOUTHFIELD - He's baaack. After several years of maintaining a relatively low profile, wellknown legal eagle Geoffrey Fieger announced Tuesday his intention to run for state attorney general in 2006 on the Democratic ticket. Never one to mince words, Fieger used a news conference at his Southfield office to accuse incumbent Attorney General Mike Cox and Republicans in general of bankrupting the state and kowtowing to corporate interests. He singled out Cox, accusing the fi rst-term prosecutor of not doing enough to advance consumer protections and of giving jobs to campaign contributors. "At a...

Fieger says he may try another run for governor 5/4/2005, 9:19 p.m. ET By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Attorney Geoffrey Fieger says he's thinking of running again for governor, this time against Gov. Jennifer Granholm in next year's Democratic primary. "I would prefer not to do that," Fieger said Wednesday after taping public television's "Off the Record" program. "The only way I would run is if I thought she was going to lose" the 2006 election to a Republican. Fieger, known for his outspokenness and former role as assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian's...

I've just heard on CNN a press conference given by George Felos, Terri's husband Michael Schiavo's attorney, hurl insults and abuse against "the religious forces" and Congressional "thugs" who, in his twisted view of reality, are walking "over Terri Schiavo's dying body." This was followed by a Crossfire free-for-all in which Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, blamed pro-Lifers for Terri's impending starvation. He stated--this is not a quote--that had society accepted Kevorkian's solutions of quick, easy, and painless euthanasia, Terri would not be facing slow death by starvation. He called this "obscene" but blames this obscenity on anti-abortion,...

Fox News: Well known attorney Geoffery Fieger ( his brother is in the rock band The Knack) will be representing fans at the Palace of Auburn Hills who were pummelled by Indiana Pacers Artest and Jackson. The case will be filed in the morning. Expect a HUGE request for settlement.

Florida bar association investigating Fieger's comments The Associated Press 4/5/02 10:14 PM SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -- The state bar association is investigating comments made by Michigan attorney Geoffrey Fieger about jurors following his client's murder conviction. Fieger, who gained national attention as the attorney for assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, called the jurors who convicted Ralf Panitz last month "creeps, Nazis and bad people," according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Fieger has denied using the word "Nazis." A message left Friday night at Fieger's home was not immediately returned. In a complaint filed with the bar association last week, local Circuit...