Geoffrey Nels Fieger (born December 23, 1950) is an American lawyer based in Southfield, Michigan. Fieger is a senior partner at Fieger, Fieger, Kenney & amp; Harrington P.C., and sometimes legal commentators for NBC and MSNBC. His practice focuses on personal injury, civil rights litigation and medical malpractice cases.
Fieger served as defense attorney for Jack Kevorkian and as a failed Democrat candidate for Michigan governor in 1998.
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Early life and family
Fieger grew up in Oak Park, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit, Michigan, the son of June Beth (nÃÆ' Â © e Oberer) and Bernard Julian Fieger. Fieger's father was a Jew, and his mother was of Norwegian origin. He got a B.A. and M.A. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1976 and J.D. from the College of Law in Detroit (now Law University of Michigan State University) in 1979.
Fieger is the older brother of Doug Fieger, the late 1970s/early-1980s main vocalist The Knack, famous for their hit song "My Sharona" in 1979. Fieger and his wife Kathleen ("Keenie") , has three children and lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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Legal career
Fieger has been involved with various high profile or controversial cases. In 1994, he represented Dr. Jack Kevorkian in some of the first physician-assisted suicide attempts. Kevorkian was released in the trial and all subsequent trials where Fieger represented him. (Kevorkian was found guilty when he represented himself in his last assisted suicide attempt in 1999). This event was made into a movie, You Do not Know Jack , aired on HBO, where Fieger is portrayed by actor Danny Huston.
Clients and other important cases include:
- Nathaniel Abraham, accused of shooting 1997 over the death of Ronnie Green, Jr. in Pontiac. Abraham, who was tried as an adult, was convicted of crimes in 1999, and released from prison in 2007.
- The Scott Amedure family in the death of one of 1999 and the lawsuit of negligence against The Jenny Jones Show
- The family of Isaiah Shoels, who was killed in the Columbine High School massacre
- Ralf Panitz, accused of killing his ex-wife, Nancy Campbell-Panitz in July 2000, after their performance along with Panitz's new wife, in The Jerry Springer Show segment. Panitz was convicted in 2002
- Robert Turner, a 6-year-old boy, who calls 911 to Detroit City was allegedly not taken seriously, resulting in the death of Turner's mother, Sherrill
- Lorraine Hayes, shot in the head and chest by his girlfriend and calling 911 on January 12, 2005, was ignored, resulting in paralysis from the waist down
- Sir Sergeant. Jeffrey Sarver, a US soldier who defused a roadside bomb in Iraq and claimed to be the main character in The Hurt Locker The Sarver case was dismissed, and under California law, was required to pay a defendant's attorney fee of $ 187,000.
- Aiyana Jones Family
- A lawsuit against the Michigan State Police on behalf of the 64-year-old Jacqueline Nichols family, a pedestrian killed when a yacht hit him during a police hunt in Flint on July 3, 2014. The state agreed to settle a $ 7.7 million lawsuit.
- The $ 100 million class action lawsuit in connection with the Legionnaires disease epidemic 2014-2015 in Flint, Michigan, on behalf of four Genesee County residents infected with water-borne diseases during the Flint water crisis, including a woman who died seven days after entering the room emergency with headache. The name of the McLaren Regional Medical Center suit and several Michigan Environment Quality Department officials as defendants.
Political career
1998 governor's campaign
In 1998 Fieger was unsuccessful as a Democrat candidate for governor of Michigan. During the Fieger campaign made several inflamed and controversial comments and statements, including
- statement that his opponent John Engler is a product of a granary missegenation;
- claims that "the rabbis are closer to the Nazis than they think."
- a radio appearance characterizing Michigan judges as "jackasses" for overturning the $ 15 million malpractice decision he won. (A lower court reprimand based on this comment was finally upheld by the Michigan Supreme Court.)
presidential campaign 2020
In January 2017 Fieger began running a television commercial that showed his intention to run for president in 2020.
Other activities
In 1997, Fieger donated $ 4 million to the Detroit College of Law, now Michigan State University Law School, to start the country's first experimental practice institute for law students, named Field Institute of Geoffrey Fieger.
Fieger emerged as one of the lawyers on the Power of Attorney reality show, and opposed the advice in an episode of NBC The Law Firm .
Trials and exemptions
In August 2007, Fieger was indicted on federal campaign finance charges; the US government alleges that Fieger had illegally channeled $ 127,000 into presidential campaign John Edwards in 2004. Fieger was defended by renowned defense lawyer Gerry Spence, who announced it would be his latest case. The jury freed Fieger from all 10 charges, and Fiegen's advisor and legal partner Ven Johnson, with five counts, on June 2, 2008. Johnson stated that the allegations were politically motivated.
References
External links
- Geoffrey Fieger's Practice Testing Institute
- Six-piece specials at Detroit Free Press at Fieger (articles archived by the Internet Archive):
- Part 1, Behind the mouth on the Wayback Machine (archived February 9, 2005)
- Part 2, the son of his father at Wayback Machine (archive December 16, 2004)
- Part 3, Kevorkian option in Wayback Machine (archived January 18, 2005)
- Part 4, Trickery and bluster on Wayback Machine (archived December 16, 2004)
- Part 5, 'Games are things' in the Wayback Machine (archived January 16, 2005)
- Part 6, Fame Prices on the Wayback Machine (archived December 16, 2004)
- You Do not Know Jack - IMDB
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