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...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...
...Kevorkian had no real defense. The videotape clearly showed him injecting the lethal dose into Youk, and the judge told the jury that sympathy for either the patient or the doctor was no excuse. Prosecutor John Skrzynski was unrelenting in plucking the feathers of the self-described angel of mercy. He called Kevorkian "a medical hit man in the night with a bag of poison to do his job." And he said, "There are 11 million souls buried in Europe that can tell you that when you make euthanasia a state policy, some catastrophic things can evolve from that...
...Kevorkian was candid about his lack of legal expertise. "If I looked inept, I was--in law. But I'm articulate in English." Though peppered with objections, he nevertheless turned his closing arguments into personal testimony on euthanasia and on his crusade. Comparing himself to Rosa Parks on the bus and to Martin Luther King Jr., Kevorkian told the jury that "there are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes. Honestly now, do you see what [the prosecution] calls a killer? If you do, then you must convict. If you don't think I'm a criminal...
...Youks remain steadfast supporters of Kevorkian. Youk's widow Melody and brother Terry want to remind people that Kevorkian had the videotape made to protect them: to show that only he was present at Tom's death, that only he could be charged with murder. They told TIME they are frustrated that the case focused on definitions of murder instead of on how Kevorkian ended Tom's suffering. Says Terry: "We weren't able to give the jurors any kind of picture of who Tom was, what he was going through." A documentary filmmaker, Terry Youk recalls his brother...
...JACK KEVORKIAN Court finds suicide doctor a murderer. Too bad he wasn't a killer lawyer