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Article: Supreme Court Won't Block Kevorkian Murder Charges
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 24, 1995
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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court today refused to consider Dr. Jack
Kevorkian's challenge to charges he faces for assisting the suicides
of terminally ill patients in Michigan.
The court, without comment, rejected Kevorkian's appeal of a
Michigan Supreme Court ruling that said there is no constitutional
right to assisted suicide.
Kevorkian sought to block his prosecution in five deaths. He
faces murder charges in the deaths of two people and assisted-suicide
charges in three others.
The justices turned down a separate challenge to the Michigan
assisted suicide ban by two terminally ill cancer patients and two
medical professionals.
Kevorkian has aided or witnessed 21 suicides since ...