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Michelle Kosilek, Robert Kosilek

Michelle Kosilek, Robert Kosilek

FILE - This May 1990 file booking photo provided by the New Rochelle, N.Y., police department, shows Robert Kosilek, arrested on drunken driving charges. Kosilek, a convicted murderer in Massachusetts who won the right to get a state-funded sex change is also eligible to have legal fees, expected to top $500,000, paid as well, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf earlier this month ordered the state Department of Correction to provide sex-reassignment surgery to Kosilek. Wolf found that prison officials had violated Kosilek's Eighth Amendment right to protection against cruel and unusual punishment, and that the surgery is the "only adequate treatment" for Kosilek's gender-identity disorder. Wolf has now found that Kosilek is also entitled to legal fees. (AP Photo/New Rochelle Police Department, File)

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