Dr. Death, Attorney at Law

Nick Gillespie | April 26, 1999

As the recently sentenced Dr.

Death begins his 10 to 25 years

of air-conditioned heel-cooling

in the Michigan gulag system,

it's high time to amend the

cliché, "A lawyer who

represents himself has a fool

for a client." (It's a

cliché, we might add,

only because it's so true, which

is itself a cliché, only

because it's so, well,

cliché.) Indeed, with the

ready example of Jack

Kevorkian's conviction for