Nearly a decade after Annie Dookhan and the state drug lab scandal, the fallout is growing
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Three former state prosecutors are facing possible disbarment. Thousands of men and women convicted of drug crimes continue to see their convictions overturned. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is on the hook for an estimated $10 million to wrongfully convicted defendants.
And now Suffolk County prosecutors are reviewing the possibility of even more wrongdoing at the closed William A. Hinton state drug lab in Jamaica Plain.
Eight years after news broke of corruption within the state’s two drug labs, first with the arrest of chemist Annie Dookhan in 2012 and then her colleague Sonja Farak in Western Massachusetts the following year, the scandal is far from over; in fact it’s still growing.
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