Word: fieger
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...committing crimes that we generally think of as 'adult crimes,' these kids should be tried as adults." And despite widespread discomfort with attributing adult motivations to children, the laws are popular in many states. Opponents of the measures, ranging from Amnesty International to Abraham's defense lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, claim they violate the most basic rights. For instance, says Fieger, an adult with the mental age of an 11-year-old could present a "diminished capacity" defense, so what's the logic in assigning adult capabilities to an 11-year-old? (Especially one who is, according to defense psychologists, operating...
Critics of daytime talk shows hailed the hefty verdict as a stinging rebuke to trash television. Amedure family attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who made his name defending euthanasia doctor Jack Kevorkian, insisted that it sent a message to "renegade outlaw talk shows" to clean up their act. "If you wish to engage in these types of shows, at least be forthright," he said. "Tell the people what they're going to get involved in, tell them you're going to be talking about lurid, obscene sexual fantasies, and make sure you don't involve mentally ill people who could later strike...
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has delineated five stages of reaction to death, from denial to acceptance, but in America there is a sixth: litigation. Just days after the Columbine shootings, the father of Isaiah Shoels, a slain 18-year-old, made a call to attorney Geoffrey Fieger, famous for defending Jack Kevorkian, about representing his family. No suits have been filed yet, and Colorado bars lawyers from soliciting clients for 30 days after an incident. But it is probable that a wave of lawsuits is coming from the victims' families and from those injured in the shootings. What is less certain...
...call the witnesses he wanted. The judge declared that the family of Thomas Youk, to whom Kevorkian had given a lethal injection, would raise the consent of the patient as a defense--one that was irrelevant in a murder case. Four times in the past, Kevorkian's lawyer Geoffrey Fieger (whom Kevorkian did not want representing him in this case) had beaten assisted-suicide charges by arguing that the ex-pathologist had only been relieving the suffering of the patients, who administered their own suicides. This time was different, Cooper said: Kevorkian had done the deed himself, and the crime...
...Louisiana man, David Rodriguez, rejected a plea bargain in the mercy killing of his Alzheimer's-ridden 90-year-old father. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Complicating matters for Kevorkian is that he seems intent on representing himself--a move his former attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, says could be disastrous...