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, @12:34AM (3 children)
Theads seem to be disappearing, like the Kasparov one it's gone, what's up with that? or am I hallucinating?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @12:44AM
Give it a day, it'll sort itself out. You just overdid it on 4/20.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @12:59AM
Cache consistency issue? I haven't noticed because after many years of dealing with crappy "web accelerators" I've picked up the habit of cache busting by inserting random junk into URLs whenever I feel like it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @01:42AM
Nope I was actually hallucinating my brain confused with this
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170416/22213937166/how-garry-kasparov-learned-to-stop-worrying-love-machines-that-beat-him-his-job.shtml [techdirt.com]
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