BOSTON -- It was a dramatic end to a trial that pitted Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis against two respected surgeons: A juror collapsed, the defending doctors rushed to his aid and the judge declared a mistrial.
Some in the legal community said they thought Weis would then reach a settlement with the two Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons rather than go through a retrial.
But jury selection is scheduled to begin Friday in Suffolk Superior Court.
The second trial is expected to last one to two weeks, and is expected to end before Notre Dame begins its preseason training camp on Aug. 6.
Weis claims the doctors acted negligently by allowing him to bleed internally for 30 hours after his gastric bypass surgery in 2002 before performing a second operation to correct the complication. He was in a coma for two weeks and nearly died.
But the Boston doctors, Charles Ferguson and Richard Hodin, said that routine postoperative tests did not reveal any problems, and that bleeding is a known complication.
Weis' attorney, Michael Mone, declined to comment before the retrial. Weis did not immediately return a message left for him Monday at his Notre Dame office.
NFL ROUNDUP: Weis retrial against surgeons starts Friday
07-12-2007, 06:01 AM
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