IndyStar dot comBy Denise Lavoie
Associated Press
A trial that opened more than a year ago has become bogged down in Boston federal court by hundreds of hours of testimony from witnesses, including 10 medical specialists. The judge himself even hired an expert to help him make sense of it all.
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An Associated Press review of the case, including figures obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews, found that the Correction Department and its outside health-care provider have spent more than $52,000 on experts to testify about an operation that would cost about $20,000.
