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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.
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Gainesville, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian is headed to the University of Florida for an October 11 speaking engagement -- which will have the college pay him $50,000. But the event isn't going over well with students there, who are upset that state taxpayer dollars will be used to pay the convicted murderer. Ashley Emans, a junior at the university, wrote more about the speaking engagement in an editorial on Town Hall. She said that the student-run speaker's bureau called ACCENT sent Kevorkian the speaking offer shortly after his released from prison, where he served eight years...
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LANSING, Michigan, August 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. Jack Kevorkian may have plans to speak at the University of Florida about his life's work of "mercy killing", but the Michigan Parole Board has not yet agreed to the euthanasia movement's poster-boy's request to leave the state. Russ Marlan, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections told LifeSiteNews.com that the Parole Board has not yet approved Kevorkian's request to leave Michigan and first "wanted to give time and see how he does." "He can't leave the state without written permission and the request is still pending," Marlan said. "[The Parole Board]...
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July 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - ACCENT, the University of Florida student government funded speaker's bureau has confirmed that Dr. Jack Kevorkian has accepted a $50,000 speaking engagement at the University. LifeSiteNews.com spoke with ACCENT chairman Steven Blank today, who said that while he could confirm that Dr. Kevorkian has accepted the invitation, and is scheduled to speak on October 11, as of yet further details cannot be released."We figure that this will be a great way to engage our student body and entertain," said Blank about Kevorkian's upcoming appearance. "We do understand that this will spark controversy. And that is...
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Though being followed like a celebrity even upon his release today from an eight-year stint in state prison, the former Michigan physician known as "Dr. Death," Jack Kevorkian, is being called a lawbreaker by at least one California member of the Christian Medical Association.Hear This Report Kevorkian, 79, served eight years in prison for second-degree murder following his assistance in a suicide that was broadcast on television's 60 Minutes and his subsequent arrest. He claims to have participated in at least 130 assisted suicides during his lifetime. Kevorkian's conviction earned him a 10- to 25-year sentence, but he...
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More than two-thirds of Americans believe there are circumstances in which a patient should be allowed to die, but they are closely divided on whether it should be legal for a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by prescribing fatal drugs, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds. The results were released Tuesday, just days before Dr. Jack Kevorkian is freed from a Michigan prison after serving more than eight years for second-degree murder in the poisoning of a man with Lou Gehrig's disease. Kevorkian's defiant assisted suicide campaign, which he waged for years before his conviction, fueled...
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'DR. DEATH' TO BE RELEASED AP May 27, 2007 -- LANSING, Mich. - Jack Kevorkian is due to be released from prison Friday, after having served more than eight years of a 10-to-25-year sentence. The retired pathologist, who waged a defiant campaign to help profoundly ailing people commit suicide, was convicted in the assisted death of a Michigan man.
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COLDWATER, Michigan, May 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Infamous euthanasia activist “Dr.” Jack Kevorkian has pledged to work towards getting assisted suicide legalized after his release from prison for the murder of a man with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kevorkian admitted his intention of pursuing legalized assisted suicide, in a telephone interview with Michigan TV station WJBK. He was careful to say he would not break any laws in the process. Kevorkian is scheduled to be released from prison on parole June 1, after serving just over eight years of his 10-25 year sentence for second-degree murder in the televised death...
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Lansing, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Much of the country may have forgotten about assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian, but Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm insists she hasn't forgotten about him. Granholm's office said Thursday she is still weighing a request from Kevorkian's lawyer to release him from prison before his scheduled parole in June.Kevorkian is 78 and reportedly suffers from a number of health ailments, including diabetes, hepatitis C, vertigo, high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries.The Michigan Parole Board announced in December that Kevorkian will be paroled.However, Kevorkian attorney Mayer Morganroth wants him to be released before that and asked...
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Remember Jack Kevorkian? He's the American euthanasia doctor behind bars for second-degree murder. He's also the one who wanted to look into the eyes of those in the process of dying for his "obitiatric research". Despite his ghoulishness, Kevorkian is revered by those such as Derek Humphry, co-founder of the pro-euthanasia group the Hemlock Society, who described Kevorkian's incarceration as "a tragedy for an honourable man". Kevorkian assisted or lethally injected at least 130 people, mostly middle-aged women. More than 70 per cent were not terminally ill. Most were disabled or depressed. Recently, the Swiss group Dignitas, which has assisted...
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Coldwater, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered state officials to carry out a medical examination on jailed assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian. The exam comes after the Michigan Parole Board recently turned down another request to commute his sentence. While Kevorkian and his attorney claim he has less than six months to live, the board said an independent doctor couldn't certify that. Wanting a second opinion, Granholm wants to confirm whether the former pathologist is near death or not. "The governor is not in the business of second-guessing our courts, but she has commuted sentences of prisoners with...
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Today, on his 78th birthday, Jack Kevorkian, the man known as "Dr. Death," is slowly dying in prison. And, according to his lawyer, Kevorkian seems to have second thoughts about helping people die. For years, Kevorkian was the center of a national debate around the highly controversial questions surrounding physician-assisted suicide or "mercy killing:" Do the terminally ill have the right to choose when and how they die? Do doctors have the ability, even an obligation, to help them die as they choose? Now, as he sits in jail, Kevorkian may have had a change of heart — not about...
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Lawyer: Kevorkian's Health Deteriorating 22 minutes ago An attorney for Jack Kevorkian said the assisted-suicide advocate will probably not survive another year if kept in prison, as he again asked the state to grant his client a pardon or commute his sentence. Lawyer Mayer Morganroth said he applied to the state Parole Board and Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Friday seeking a pardon, parole or commutation, citing the 77-year-old's deteriorating health. "Kevorkian has become increasingly frail and has fallen twice, injuring his wrist and fracturing two ribs," Morganroth said in a statement. His blood pressure has gone "through the roof," the...
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Jack Kevorkian's attorney is asking Michigan's governor and parole board for a third time to pardon the 77-year-old assisted-suicide advocate or commute his sentence. Kevorkian is eligible for parole in 2007, but attorney Mayer Morganroth says he might not live that long. Kevorkian suffers from a number of ailments, including high blood pressure, arthritis, cataracts, osteoporosis and Hepatitis C, he said. "The man is in dire shape," Morganroth said in a statement Saturday. "Prison has deteriorated him almost to the point of no return." Gov. Jennifer Granholm has said in the past that she won't consider pardoning Kevorkian. Two previous...
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Incarcerated euthanasia crusader, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, says when he's released from prison he won't help anyone end his life by assisted suicide until the law makes it legal, but if he could go back ten years, he would have taken Terri Schiavo as a "patient" if her husband Michael had come to him. Kevorkian, 77, is serving a 10 to 25 year sentence for second degree murder in an assisted suicide case where he injected a patient suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease with a fatal dose of drugs. He is eligible for parole in 2007.
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court dealt losses Monday to convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, imprisoned Dr. Jack Kevorkian, former Olympic security guard Richard Jewell, and Frank Sinatra Jr.</p>
<p>Their cases were among more than a thousand that justices refused to consider as they returned to work after a three-month break. The court only hears arguments in 80 or so cases each year — about 1% of the cases that make it to the high court.</p>
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<p>A lawyer for Jack Kevorkian says the 74-year-old has been transferred to a prison closer to his home and his friends.</p>
<p>Mayer Morganroth said Kevorkian, who is serving the fourth year of a sentence for his second-degree murder conviction, was moved to the Thumb Correctional Facility in Lapeer on Friday morning.</p>
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