Word: kevorkian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack Kevorkian seems for now to 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...
...only recognize laws passed by a legislature, not made up by courts," Kevorkian said in Michigan, thus pushing button No. 1, distrust of the legal system. Since a large body of common law evolved in court, this is tantamount to throwing out half the book before the show even begins. Button No. 2 and the clincher at the Michigan trial was a simple video of Kevorkian's latest 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...
ACQUITTED. DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, 67, the right-to-die activist; of common-law assisted-suicide charges; in Pontiac, Michigan. The jury's not-guilty verdicts marked prosecutors' third failure to convict "Dr. Death...
...thing that would stop me...is being burned at the stake. I don't like burning to death." --Dr. Jack Kevorkian...
...that legal prohibitions against assisted suicide may be crumbling, doctors all over the country could soon be as up front as Kevorkian--a prospect that has always disturbed many of them. For one thing, doctors may become more vulnerable to lawsuits because they will suddenly be open to scrutiny by family members and attorneys. If health professionals are going to be held accountable, says Dr. Howard Grossman, one of the three doctors who successfully challenged the New York law, "there must be clear guidelines of what constitutes a terminally ill patient...