Judge Asked to Drop Kevorkian Verdict

A lawyer for Dr. Jack Kevorkian asked a judge to throw out his murder conviction, saying he had bad legal advice--even though Kevorkian defended himself at his trial. Lawyer Mayer Morganroth blamed Kevorkian’s lawyer, David Gorosh, for “ineffective assistance of counsel.” Morganroth alleged that Kevorkian acted as his own attorney out of frustration over the way Gorosh was handling the defense, the Oakland Press of Pontiac, Mich., reported. Kevorkian is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder and delivery of a controlled substance in the injection death of Thomas Youk, who had Lou Gehrig’s disease.