Word: fieger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doctor Jack Kevorkian assisted John Zedanowicz to commit suicide last Thursday, his attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, announced in a speech at the Law School on Friday...
...minds on the issue. As a possible sign of what lies ahead, right-to-die campaign representatives say they are ready for a state-level fight. Asked whether Thursday's ruling would halt the activities of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the movement's best-known advocate, Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, was succinct: "Hell...
...have reached Celebrity Heaven, the very Eye of the Hoopla, which is to say he is never completely out of the news these days, what with going to court or coming from court or explaining what happened in court. "Thank God for the jury system," said his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, after the Doc's latest trial in Michigan, and well he might. Simply by punching a couple of jury-pleasing buttons, the team of Kevorkian and Fieger should be able to keep their show on the boards and out of jail forever, until the Law stops puffing after them...
...subjects begging to be allowed to die. Just reading their words into the record might not have done the trick, and screams of pain could have been counterproductive. But the sight and sound of two Americans requesting autonomy proved just the thing, and Dr. Death walked once again. As Fieger put it two weekends ago in the court of Andy Rooney (where maybe all future trials should be held), "Government has no business telling you when you have to"--and here the transcript indicates a slight pause, as if the speaker were choosing among possibilities. Has the government the right...
...news conference, Fieger compared his client's crusade with those of civil rights heroes Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and India's Mahatma Gandhi. Kevorkian "does not wish to die," Fieger says, but he will continue his fast "unless he is released or the law is struck down." The legislation was overturned once in a county court earlier this year. But the state challenged the decision, and the Michigan Court of Appeals agreed to review it, meanwhile reinstating the law until a ruling comes, probably early next year. The waiting period will sternly test Kevorkian's resolve...