**FILE** Dr. Jack Kevorkian sits at the defense table after being convicted of second-degree murder and delivery of a controlled substance at his trial in the Oakland County Circuit Court, in Pontiac, Mich.,on March 26, 1999. For the third consecutive year, an attorney for Jack Kevorkian is asking Gov. Jennifer Granholm and the state's parole board to either grant the assisted-suicide advocate a pardon or commute his sentence. Mayer Morganroth said Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005, that he filed the application Friday requesting that the Michigan Parole Board immediately forward the request to Granholm. (AP Photo/Tom Pidgeon, pool)