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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @01:47AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @01:47AM (#497728)

    The objective of crime labs is to please there pay masters, not come up with correct results, the objective of the state is to convict someone, in the end it does not matter who or if they are guilty or innocent, my apologizes if I hash you out on actual reality but people particularly those that work for the state are not concerned with justice or truth or anything you think they might and should be concerned about, they are self interested actors in a capitalist system so they lie cheat and steal like all the rest

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:25AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:25AM (#497797)

    Yep. I think I posted this last time this came up, but while she's guilty, the whole capitalist system enabled her.

    She was merely doing what her employers wanted any employee to do: get the customer what she's paying for.

    The state is the customer, and the state is paying for convictions.

    I would bet anything that this lab was chosen because it delivered the most convictions over competing labs.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:31AM (#497834)

      The power of greenspan compels you?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @02:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @02:56PM (#497929)

    According to the English legal system the US adopted, the state's interest is purely in conviction, no matter whether the accused is actually innocent.

    It is up to the accused to hire his own experts to disprove the state lab. The jury will then choose which side to believe and in the end the lawyers all backslap each other and head to the bar (hah!).