Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 11, 1993 TAG: 9309110131
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: DETROIT LENGTH: Medium
"If he's imprisoned, he will not eat, and Dr. Kevorkian will not survive very long in prison," Geoffrey Fieger said of his gaunt, 65-year-old client.
He said the man who committed suicide Thursday had signed a thank-you note for Kevorkian, saying "It's a nicer world because of thoughtful people like you."
Police were summoned Thursday night by a 911 call to the Redford Township home of Donald and Eunice O'Keefe. There, they found Kevorkian and Donald O'Keefe, a retired, 73-year-old Ford Motor Co. worker with bone cancer, dead in his bed. He had a mask and tube over his nose and mouth, and a canister was nearby, Police Chief David Parker said. Eunice O'Keefe was out of town, he said.
Kevorkian has refused to answer police questions.
Prosecutors said they probably will decide by Monday whether to levy more charges or ask the court to raise Kevorkian's bond. They are awaiting an autopsy report and further investigation results.
"We're certainly not going to go running into court and say he was there when somebody died. We'd get laughed out of court," Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Tim Kenny said. "If we can establish that he did participate and assist, we would certainly be seeking to get bond changed."
Kenny was meeting with Redford Township police Friday.
Wayne County Prosecutor John O'Hair accused Kevorkian of defying the law - especially since just hours earlier, he was allowed to remain free on $100,000 bond after being ordered to stand trial on a charge of breaking Michigan's new law banning assisted suicide.
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