Jack Kevorkian

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One of Geoffrey Fieger’s best-known clients is Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the man who became known as Dr. Death in the 1990s as a result of his assisting over one hundred people to commit suicide. Kevorkian’s ... medical license was revoked after the first two deaths and he eventually went to prison when he chose to represent himself. Fieger defended Kevorkian in his six murder trials, and became a nationally known for Kevorkian and his cause, citing the right of all American’s to end their suffering if mentally competent. Kevorkian choose to represent himself in his last trial and went to prison for nine years. Fieger and Kevorkian kept in touch until his death in 2011.