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Title: Judge: Transsexual inmate should recoup legal fees
Post by: Shana A on September 17, 2012, 12:55:23 PM
Post by: Shana A on September 17, 2012, 12:55:23 PM
Judge: Transsexual inmate should recoup legal fees
By Laurel J. Sweet
Monday, September 17, 2012
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220917judge_transsexual_inmate_should_recoup_legal_fees/ (http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220917judge_transsexual_inmate_should_recoup_legal_fees/)
Taxpayers already are on the hook for a transsexual wife killer's sex-change operation, and now the federal judge who stuck them with that tab said in a rare weekend decision yesterday that Michelle Lynne Kosilek also is entitled to be reimbursed by the state for years of legal bills.
The bottom line "is likely to be large," according to the memorandum issued yesterday by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf. The amount could be disclosed as soon as Thursday — the deadline Wolf has set for Kosilek's legal team to submit a suggested bill to the court.
Wolf is urging lawyers for both sides to meet and try and reach a resolution that will avoid additional litigation and costs fighting his order.
By Laurel J. Sweet
Monday, September 17, 2012
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220917judge_transsexual_inmate_should_recoup_legal_fees/ (http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220917judge_transsexual_inmate_should_recoup_legal_fees/)
Taxpayers already are on the hook for a transsexual wife killer's sex-change operation, and now the federal judge who stuck them with that tab said in a rare weekend decision yesterday that Michelle Lynne Kosilek also is entitled to be reimbursed by the state for years of legal bills.
The bottom line "is likely to be large," according to the memorandum issued yesterday by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf. The amount could be disclosed as soon as Thursday — the deadline Wolf has set for Kosilek's legal team to submit a suggested bill to the court.
Wolf is urging lawyers for both sides to meet and try and reach a resolution that will avoid additional litigation and costs fighting his order.