09-05-2012, 08:47 AM
D.O.C. will likely appeal.
Boston Herald today:
michelle Kosilek — the wife-strangling transsexual who spent years fighting for a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation — is “very, very moved” by a federal judge’s surprise ruling yesterday that orders the state’s prison system to bankroll his surgical journey into womanhood, his lawyer told the Herald.
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“She really appreciates the careful consideration of the court, and the respectful decision,” attorney Frances S. Cohen said of her client, Michelle Kosilek — formerly known as Robert — an MCI-Norfolk lifer who has been diagnosed with gender-identity disorder and sued the state in 2006 to provide sex-change surgery. “She’s been living with this problem for a very long time.”
In a mammoth, 128-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf said denying Kosilek the surgery violates his Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Kosilek’s doctors say the gender-identity disorder has caused him to try both self-castration and suicide. They prescribed the surgery.
DOC spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said the department is weighing whether to appeal. She would not say whether Kosilek would be transferred to a women’s prison, or whether the department expects a glut of similar lawsuits from the 15 other inmates diagnosed with gender-identity disorder. Each has a specialized treatment plan but she would not say whether any of those plans call for surgery.
Wolf’s decision drew rebukes from Bay State GOP leaders, with U.S. Sen. Scott Brown calling it “an outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars.” State Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr said the ruling “is well beyond the scope of reason, and an unjustifiable expansion of the requirements of the Eighth Amendment. The decision will lead to an outrageous result in the current case and sets a bad precedent for future cases.”
Kosilek, 63, was convicted in 1992 of strangling his wife, Cheryl, and leaving her body at a North Attleboro mall. Prosecutors said at his trial — where he wore women’s clothing, long nails and long hair — that he killed her and splurged hundreds of dollars on women’s clothing and makeup to start a new life as a single gal.
in the meantime, i recommend bringing the pillory back to Boston Common so the irate citizens can throw rotten vegetables etc. at the liberal wienie judge, after which he will be thrown into Boston Harbor.
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Boston Herald today:
michelle Kosilek — the wife-strangling transsexual who spent years fighting for a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation — is “very, very moved” by a federal judge’s surprise ruling yesterday that orders the state’s prison system to bankroll his surgical journey into womanhood, his lawyer told the Herald.
---->“She really appreciates the careful consideration of the court, and the respectful decision,” attorney Frances S. Cohen said of her client, Michelle Kosilek — formerly known as Robert — an MCI-Norfolk lifer who has been diagnosed with gender-identity disorder and sued the state in 2006 to provide sex-change surgery. “She’s been living with this problem for a very long time.”
In a mammoth, 128-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf said denying Kosilek the surgery violates his Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Kosilek’s doctors say the gender-identity disorder has caused him to try both self-castration and suicide. They prescribed the surgery.
DOC spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said the department is weighing whether to appeal. She would not say whether Kosilek would be transferred to a women’s prison, or whether the department expects a glut of similar lawsuits from the 15 other inmates diagnosed with gender-identity disorder. Each has a specialized treatment plan but she would not say whether any of those plans call for surgery.
Wolf’s decision drew rebukes from Bay State GOP leaders, with U.S. Sen. Scott Brown calling it “an outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars.” State Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr said the ruling “is well beyond the scope of reason, and an unjustifiable expansion of the requirements of the Eighth Amendment. The decision will lead to an outrageous result in the current case and sets a bad precedent for future cases.”
Kosilek, 63, was convicted in 1992 of strangling his wife, Cheryl, and leaving her body at a North Attleboro mall. Prosecutors said at his trial — where he wore women’s clothing, long nails and long hair — that he killed her and splurged hundreds of dollars on women’s clothing and makeup to start a new life as a single gal.
in the meantime, i recommend bringing the pillory back to Boston Common so the irate citizens can throw rotten vegetables etc. at the liberal wienie judge, after which he will be thrown into Boston Harbor.