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posted by martyb on Friday April 21 2017, @11:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the real-reason-to-celebrate-4/20 dept.

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.

Previous Coverage:
Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 22 2017, @12:24AM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday April 22 2017, @12:24AM (#497696) Homepage

    With a little bit of effort based on the image of the perp and a Google search for "Patel Dookhan," one can gather enough evidence to surmise that "Annie" Dookhan is Indian. So you'd see the same kind of shit with Indian forensic analysts as you'd see with Indian programmers.

    " Yes, yes, code is good, see? It works and makes us money and we win. Now stop asking questions. "

    The only reason why the top paragraph was mentioned is because Google is rolling out their new annoying mode today, where Googling the origin of a name yields zero usable results. The beauty of Google search for a long time was that it was effortless, now, you have to put more and more effort into your searches thanks to their underhanded PC/censorship algorithms. Now, though, the behavior of their site is deliberately designed not only to yield half-useful results but to piss people off so they'll fight in the streets of Berkeley. Oh well, better they fight each other with petri-dish created "grassroots movements" than ignore divisive issues and work together to solve real problems. Thanks Obama!*

    * Grand Emperor-for-life Baraq Hussein Soetoro, the network of whom are the ultimate army of fifth-columnists

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday April 22 2017, @02:35AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 22 2017, @02:35AM (#497748) Journal

    Now, try this one: Sonja Farak [bostonglobe.com].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @11:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @11:30AM (#497867)

    In general, Indians do crappy work. In general, the police only arrest guilty people. Generalizations make life easy.