High Court Rejects Kevorkian’s Appeal
From Times Wire Reports
Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian lost a Supreme Court appeal in his bid to win freedom after five years in prison.
Justices, without comment, turned back an appeal in which Kevorkian claimed he had an ineffective lawyer when he was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk. Youk had Lou Gehrig’s disease, and Kevorkian called it a mercy killing. The death was videotaped and shown on national television.
Kevorkian could be eligible for parole in 2007.
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