Annie Dookhan's falsification of drug lab tests has become a reason for over 21,000 people to celebrate. Massachusetts will drop 21,587 cases in the largest single dismissal of convictions in U.S. history:
Massachusetts formally dropped more than 21,000 tainted drug convictions Thursday that were linked to a disgraced state chemist who in 2013 admitted to faking test results.
It's the largest single dismissal of convictions in U.S. history, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Thursday's dismissals by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court had been expected after several district attorneys on Tuesday submitted lists of 21,587 cases they said they would be unwilling or unable to prosecute, The Associated Press reports.
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Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @08:14AM
Government and its agents most certainly do not have a monopoly on violence here in the USA, though they would very much like you to think they do.
You've heard of the Bundy ranching family? About the Battle of Bunkerville where armed BLM agents pointed loaded weapons at Americans, Americans who were also armed but didn't back down, and which ended in the BLM leaving behind the stolen property in question and fleeing?
After the Bundy family members were acquitted in Oregon likely due to jury nullification (over the later Malheur preserve protest), all the stops are being pulled out in Nevada federal courts [oathkeepers.org]. A conviction won't stop even individual people from realizing how powerful they can when they start treating government agents like the criminals they are.