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Kevorkian did not have to go to jail at all; he could have put up a $2,000 bond payment and walked out of court. In fact, anyone can post the money and secure his release, but his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, urged supporters not to do so. It was typical of Kevorkian's defiant, publicity-conscious campaign that he chose a cell and a hunger strike. His objective is to attract attention and change minds. He argues that Michigan's law against assisted suicides, which was enacted specifically to halt his activities, is "immoral" and must be struck down...
That would be a gesture familiar to Dr. Kevorkian, who has made defiance of the law a passion second only to suicide. "When the law itself is intrinsically immoral," says Kevorkian's irrepressible mouthpiece, lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, "there is a greater duty to violate the law." Yet this time around Kevorkian merely tiptoed past it. Fieger says the doctor isn't taking any credit for helping a desperate man die. He just wanted to watch...
...inspector Gerald Stewart, who heads the major-crimes division of the Detroit police department. "We will have to establish that someone did assist in a suicide, and it's kind of difficult." After two hours, during which he watched the Knicks- Hornets play-off game, police released Kevorkian into Fieger's custody...
LIKE BROTHER, LIKE SISTER. MARGO JANUS, SISTER OF ASSISTed-suicide crusader DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, is a regular attendee at his deadly house calls. "She's been at every one," said Geoffrey Fieger, Kevorkian's lawyer and spokesperson. But why? According to Oakland County, Michigan, prosecutors, the 66-year-old Janus, who has worked as a secretary for Chrysler, has no medical ! background and doesn't participate in the suicides in any substantive way. "She feels the way Jack feels," explains Fieger. "Her firm conviction ((is)) that human beings who are suffering have rights over their bodies." Last Thursday, Kevorkian assisted...
...until a commission can make a recommendation, is aimed directly at Kevorkian. But the doctor says it makes no difference to him if Michigan's elected representatives turn him into an outlaw. "He has told me that even if this does become a law, he would violate it," says Fieger. The problem is that once zealots claim the right to choose which laws they'll obey, all the underlying trust that permits professionals, and especially doctors, to function disappears...