Posted on 04/03/2020 10:15:08 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
How to Fix a Drug Scandal” revisits the double whammy Massachusetts’ criminal courts faced when its two most prominent drug-testing labs were shut down and literally thousands of convictions had to subsequently be tossed.
What began in January 2013 as one lab chemist’s drug bust expanded into a shocking case of the Attorney General’s Office being charged with knowingly withholding key evidence from the trial judge.
Ultimately over 35,000 convictions were overturned.
In 2012 Boston’s Hinton Drug Lab chemist Annie Dookhan met the demands of her job by simply not testing drug samples and saying she did. She hoped to impress the prosecutor; she saw herself as on his “team,” not as an independent scientist.
In 2013 Sonja Farak was arrested and convicted for using test drugs in her lab. She was smoking crack at work.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
The other interesting tidbit, all the “bad guys” were women.
Gotta test it somehow!
How many people got either arrested or fired?
Trinidad.
2 jailed and both labs were shutdown. So dozens fired.
And thousands of tests used as evidence was tossed. I was on the first re-trial of a kid imprisoned on that case. We convicted the kid again, and the judge explained this had happened four years earlier and he had already served his time and had been released.
“Trinidad.”
Looks like Gandhi, talks like Marley.
That’s why they call it ganja in those parts. Same word in Thai [kancha]. From Hindi
Actually there are a lot of Indians in Trinidad. Remember both used to be British!
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