In drug lab fiasco, harsh penalty for non-citizens
On a recent morning in Suffolk Superior Court, Boston defense attorney Andrew Stockwell-Alpert represented one in the first wave of defendants seeking to have their criminal convictions reviewed or...
View ArticleBar leaders call for outside investigator to oversee drug lab scandal
Bar leaders are stepping up efforts to have an independent investigator with full subpoena powers brought in to oversee wrongdoing at the state drug lab, where thousands of narcotics cases may be...
View ArticlePractical steps for representing a crime lab defendant
With allegations about altered drug tests and forged documents at the state laboratory in Jamaica Plain only weeks old, it is likely that the revelations containing more detailed specifics of what...
View ArticleSJC rules on Dookhan fallout
The Supreme Judicial Court has answered reported questions concerning the authority of special judicial magistrates presiding over “drug lab sessions” established in the wake of the scandal over...
View ArticleCriminal – Drug lab – New trials
Where three petitioners have been granted new trials after pleading guilty to drug offenses based on drug analysis certifications signed by Annie Dookhan, the petitioners on retrial cannot be charged...
View ArticleDookhan released on parole in March
Annie Dookhan, the former Hinton State Laboratory chemist whose evidence tampering led to a review of tens of thousands of criminal cases, has been paroled, according to a spokesman for the Department...
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