A man who claims a motivational speaker paid him $1,000 to “do a Kevorkian” and help the speaker to commit suicide has lost his bid to have murder charges against him thrown out.

Accused of holding the knife that Jeffrey Locker repeatedly “leaned” into before bleeding to death in a parked car in East Harlem, Kenneth Minor asked Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Berkman (See Profile) to either dismiss his murder indictment or force prosecutors to send his case back to a grand jury and charge him with manslaughter, not murder.