DETROIT, June 23 (UPI) -- A lawyer for Jack Kevorkian has promised to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court's decision to deny the assisted-suicide advocate a new trial.
Meyer Morganroth, who represents Kevorkian, suggested the lower court's decision reflected personal bias, the Detroit News said Wednesday.
"All I can say is that if it wasn't Jack Kevorkian's name on the case, there would have been a different decision," Morganroth said. "Jack Kevorkian put a lot of people's nose out of joint.
Morganroth promised an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Kevorkian has admitted to assisting in 130 suicides since 1990. The former pathologist has been in a Lapeer prison since April 1999 when he was sentenced following his conviction on a second-degree murder charge in the 1998 televised death of a Michigan man.
