Beards Grow Long During Wait for Jury Verdict in Opioid Trial
- Boston federal panel moving into fourth week of deliberations
- Former Insys CEO, four others, tried on racketeering charges
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It’s been almost three weeks since a Boston jury began deliberating in the racketeering trial of Insys Therapeutics Inc. executives over the promotion of their opioid drug, with nary a peep from the panel.
In that time a defense lawyer has grown almost a full beard, one of the defendants says she’s out of money and can’t afford to stay near the courthouse anymore, and observers are left speculating about what’s going on in the jury room high above Boston Harbor.