Escobars attorney and Rollins have argued that because of the massive misconduct at Hinton outlined in a 2014 and 2016 state inspector generals report all evidence tested there during that time period is suspect. [Telegram.com], Some Familiar Faces Make Up Elite USA Team for 117th Boston Marathon. Annie Dookhan's Husband Warned: She Was 'Always Lying' Rollins said Wednesday she would appeal to the states highest court. But if the Farak scandal is half as big as Dookhans, then about one in four drug convictions in Massachusetts over a decade will have been based on tainted evidence. The new data reveals important information about the extent of the drug cases tainted by the Dookhan scandal and about the challenges of using a case-by-case approach to try to remedy the wrongful convictions of the Dookhan-Farak Era: From 2003-2012, Dookhans work accounted for approximately 24,481 cases in which prosecutors obtained adverse dispositions (including guilty pleas) for drug charges, including: Approximately 2,255 cases in Bristol County, Approximately 1,322 cases in the Cape and Islands, Approximately 4,216 cases in Essex County, Approximately 3,540 cases in Middlesex County, Approximately 2,361 cases in Norfolk County, Approximately 2,097 cases in Plymouth County, Approximately 8,690 cases in Suffolk County. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. According to the Attorney General, Farak used drugs daily during her eight years on the job, and her misconduct likely affects thousands more cases. She said she wanted to get her work done and never meant to hurt anyone. Despite Scandals, Nation's Crime Labs Have Seen Little Change The misconduct during the Dookhan-Farak Era is of course shocking, but the broader issue is the spectacular failure of the war on drugs in Massachusetts. She was sentenced to three to five years in prison plus two years probation. Prosectors said that during her nine-year tenure at a state drug lab in Boston, where she was responsible for processing drug samples seized from suspects, Ms. Dookhan mishandled samples, forged signatures and returned positive results on drugs she had never tested. Published Jul 1, 2020. Judge declines mass dismissal of cases from tainted Nicolas Gordon, Dookhan's attorney, told The Boston Herald in 2016 that he was unsurprised Dookhan only served three years of her five year sentence, since she Neighbors knew Dookhan, then Annie Khan, as a quiet teenager whose parents liked to share stories of her academic success. BOSTON Prosecutors responding to ACLU litigation have provided lists that, for the first time, identify more than 24,000 drug cases worked on by convicted chemist Annie Dookhan, in which people were convicted or had other adverse dispositions. The year after she started working at the Hinton lab, she married Surrendranath Dookhan, a software engineer also born in Trinidad. They also moved to a house in Franklin, which is nearly 40 miles southwest of Boston. Dookhan's job then was to perform identification tests on raw materials, what Weagle said amounted to basic chemistry, and was nearly as technical as her work at Hinton.
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