Thousands of additional Massachusetts drug cases will be dismissed, and the state’s attorney general’s office will bear the costs the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday. The decision is the result of the court’s finding that prosecutors withheld evidence about a state chemist’s wrongdoing. Already, 7,500 cases have been ordered dismissed by the SJC since […]
Because of This Lab Employee, At Least 8,000 Drug Convictions in Massachusetts Are Likely to Be Tossed…
Massachusetts authorities will toss out more than 8,000 convictions that are tainted because a chemist at the state lab was high on drugs she was supposed to be testing almost every day she went to work, authorities said on Friday. The announcements by various district attorneys’ offices came after the American Civil Liberties Union and […]