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Jack Kevorkian
PONTIAC, Mich — Jack Kevorkian mockingly wore a colonial-style costume to court yesterday for his third trial on assisted-suicide charges — a case that may be prosecutors' best chance yet of winning a conviction.
"If Thomas Jefferson justifies and
endorses and advocates suicide for cancer, why am I in this court-r o o m ? " Kevorkian shouted wearing a white wig, knee britches, a vest and buckle shoes.
Kevorkian twice has escaped conviction under Michigan's now-expired assisted-suicide law. He was acquitted three weeks ago on charges stemming from two 1993 deaths. In 1994, he was found not guilty in another death.
The Associated Press
Kevorkian in court faces his third trial
For this trial, held under Michigan common law, Judge David Breck ruled that prosecutors must prove only that Kevorkian knew two women sought to commit suicide and that he gave them the means.
Kevorkian, 67, is charged in the deaths of Sherry Miller, 43, and Marjorie Wantz, 58, in 1991. Miller died after inhaling carbon monoxide, and Wantz died of an injection. Neither of the women were terminally ill — Miller had multiple sclerosis; Wantz
had pelvic pain.
"In this case, you have a lady who had multiple sclerosis — it was not terminal at the time — and you have a lady who the medical examiner testifies there was nothing physically wrong with her," Bunting said. "She had a mental problem."
Prosecutor Lawrence Bunting said he would argue that Miller and Wantz had other options.
Despite Breck's ruling, defense attorney Geoffrey Fieger said Thursday he still plans to show jurors that Kevorkian's intent was to relieve pain and suffering.
Kevorkian faces up to five years in prison on each of the two counts if convicted.
Upon arriving at court, Kevorkian gave reporters a copy of what he said was the text of an 1813 letter in which Thomas Jefferson discussed the advantages of developing a preparation from poisonous plants that could be used to end life painlessly.
"There are ills in life as desperate and intolerable, to which it would be rational relief, e.g., the inveterate cancer," the letter said.
Kevorkian maintains that laws against assisted suicide are immoral and inconsistent with the Constitution. His view was supported recently by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in a case from the state of Washington that there is a constitutional right to assisted suicide.
In 1994, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled there is a common law prohibiting assisted suicide.
The Associated Press
Clinton has maintained that the claim is unfounded. The president will videotape his testimony at the White House on April 29; it will be shown to the jury later.
Banker could deflate Whitewater's rafts
for Hale in the 1980s, testified last week that Hale told him Clinton was pressuring him to close the $825,000 transaction. Watt quoted Hale as saying in 1985: "I've been to a meeting ... and Gov. Clinton wants to get it done. He's got to help his friends."
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The trial of President Clinton's Whitewater business partners enters a critical stage this week with the testimony of a small-time banker who says Clinton pressured him to make a $300,000 loan.
Hale claims that Clinton, as governor in 1986, pressured him to lend Susan McDougal $300,000.
Hale is the government's star witness against James and Susan McDougal and Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton's successor in Arkansas. The three are accused of obtaining $3 million in federally-backed loans under false pretenses.
At Hale's sentencing last week, prosecutors said Hale broke a conspiracy of silence in the Whitewater investigation.
David Hale, whose allegations are central to the Whitewater investigation, was expected to take the stand late yesterday and testify for the rest of the week.
Hale was sentenced last week to more than two years in prison. He also was ordered to pay $2 million in restitution to the Small Business Administration for misrepresenting to the administration the amount of capital available to his lending company, Capital Management Services.
The McDougals were partners with Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the Whitewater land development from 1978 to 1992. The McDougals also owned Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.
The charges against Tucker and the McDougals center on loans made from Madison and Capital Management 10 years
ago.
Hale also is expected to testify about an $825,000 real estate loan that is important to the government's case.
Bill Clinton
Bill Watt,
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Defense attorneys said Hale's time on the stand represented an important week in the month-old case. The charges against Tucker and the McDougals were based largely on Hale's allegations.
THE NEWS in brief
Mother Teresa breaks bone, must cancel charity event
The Associated Press
CALCUTTA, India — Mother Teresa fell and broke her left collarbone yesterday at her Missionaries of Charity headquarters.
The 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate is spending the night under observation at Calcutta's Woodlands nursing home. She suffered the injury Sunday when she fell off a bed, S.K. Sen, medical director of
the hospital, said without providing additional details.
"The fracture had been dealt with, and her condition is now stable," Sen said.
She is expected to be released today, said Asim Bardhan, the attending physician.
For decades, Mother Teresa has run missions in India and other countries for poor people and orphans.
The fall forced her to cancel plans to travel to Calcutta airport yesterday to accept $12 million of medical supplies, toys and garments donated by Heart to Heart International, a nonprofit relief organization based in Olathe.
Instead, three representative accepted 50 tons of supplies that will be used by Missionaries of Charity and other health care institutions in Calcutta.
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