The cases were all tarnished with by a chemist who falsified reports
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Massachusetts will be ready to drop almost 24,000 drug convictions that had been tainted by a single forensic lab chemist by mid- April reports The Boston Globe.
Annie Dookhan had been working as a drug lab chemist in a forensic crime lab when she pled guilty to falsifying test results that involved at least 24000 cases.
Dookhan was convicted in 2012 and since then the Massachusetts criminal justice system has been reeling under the number of so-called “Dookhan defendants” and how to ensure justice for all of them.
She had managed to taint an estimated one in six drug cases in Massachusetts between 2003 and 2012.
A prosecutor told the Supreme Judicial Court last week that D.A. would seek to keep fewer than 1,000 of the 24,000 convictions
Dookhan served three years in prison, for perjury and evidence-tampering, before she was released on parole last year.
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