Multiple Victims Don’t Know They Were Affected by the Fake Lab Results

Years after government chemist Annie Dookhan faked evidence against thousands of Americans, there is still a long trail of lives she destroyed, and the government is evidently not cleaning up the mess.

Disturbingly, there are still numerous innocent people locked in prison, and they might not have any idea that it was Annie Dookhan who brought about the horrible fate they now face, day after day, year after year, stuck there with no hope of getting out.

Imagine being locked in a cell and knowing you’re innocent. Imagine how you’d feel as you watch the prime years of your life taken away from you — all because of a vicious government chemist, along with the low-IQ cops who willingly enforce the corrupt “war on drugs.”


There might be thousands of Americans in precisely this situation right now, and they have no idea what Dookhan actually did.

The Boston Globe reports as follows:

Incredibly, more than four years after Dookhan’s crimes were first uncovered, this simple question of justice remains unresolved. Thousands of those whose lives were affected haven’t been notified of their rights, including the possibility of a new trial. Many still have no idea they are Dookhan defendants.

The mess isn’t even close to being cleaned up. And what a mess it is.

MASSACHUSETTS — In a maddening scandal that is rocking the state of Massachusetts, a government crime lab chemist has been caught intentionally forging signatures and tampering with evidence in as many as 40,000 cases, destroying the lives of countless innocent Americans.

Annie Dookhan worked as a chemist for the State of Massachusetts, and it turns out she had close relations with prosecutors.

These prosecutors were able to successfully convict innocent Americans because Dookhan would chemically taint the “evidence,” resulting in career boosts for the prosecutors while innocent men and women were torn from their families and locked in cells.

Prosecutors praised Dookhan’s work and depended on her to get the convictions they wanted, according to reports.

 

Notice how none of the other government criminals are in trouble, like the prosecutors she was fucking

 

There seems to be to this, than meets the eye.

https://badchemistry.wbur.org/

 

Yeah i found quite an extensive article on the bitch, but i figured the status quo would complain if i posted it all.

Im blown away by the fact that some of these people have been setting there for years wrongly convicted and the goddamn government has no intention of looking at all the cases probably because the inmate count will drop to quickly or they will loose profit. Its shocking at just how little other people's lives mean to these fucking low life fucks in the government

 

By The NumbersAs of August 2013
60 Cases that sparked investigation
40,323 Dookhan cases involved
190,000 Cases under question from the Hinton lab
337 People released from prison or county jail, per the last official tally
View the Data

 

337 out of possible 40,000 released in several years time. To me if they were all non violent drug charges they should be exonerated and set free. These innocent people that truly are innocent should not have to sit there a damn minute longer than they have. But these motherfuckers in the so called justice system don't give two shits about completely destroying a person's life. They should all go to prison life without parole, judges, prosecutors, and any other fuck that was in on it

 

Nah, more to it than that, from what I read, most dont want to say anything, the courts will have the obligation to charge most with more violent crimes that they took a plea deal on, for drug charges, hell, one of them was charged with murder.

 

This title right here says it all,

"Thousands Of Drug Convictions At Stake In Massachusetts High Court Case"

The only thing the government is concerned about is loosing those convictions and inmates, they don't give a damn whether or not they are innocent. This just adds that much more to my hatred for the fucking government

 

I was speaking of those charged only for non violent drug charges. Murderers and rapists can keep their asses in the slam.

 

You know as well as I know, 4 out of 5 times, the title of the story, doesn't match the story.

 

District attorneys have set up “war rooms” in their offices just so staffers can research and match the cases in which Dookhan tested the drug evidence. They’ve hired retired judges to preside over dozens of special court sessions to review each case and decide whether to release those incarcerated and/or hold new trials.


Several simultaneous investigations are ongoing. Attorney General Coakley is pursuing the criminal case against Dookhan. The state inspector general is looking at lab operations. Gov. Deval Patrick has appointed attorney David Meier to review the affected cases. Essentially they want to pinpoint the extent of the bad tests and determine whether all drug testing done at the Hinton lab should be considered tainted and possibly whether to dismiss all criminal cases connected to the lab.

 

That is a shock if they are telling the truth

 

I see no reason not to believe it, the ACLU would be up their ass's to their necks if it wasn't legit.

 

Oh I thought this was going to be about Clinton.

 

You guys are just catching up to this NOW? God, the shit that has gone down over the past couple of years. Then again, I'm closer than most, having lived in Boston for nearly 20 years, and I still subscribe to The Boston Herald, even though I now live in RI. (As a matter of fact, the following article is archived and I would have had to pay $4.00 to retrieve it. But I save nearly 2 years worth of e-Editions in my PressReader app.)

2015-05-15




Gun suspect praises Annie Dookhan: `I love that lady'

2013-09-18

A Quincy man who was arrested over the weekend for gun possession and theft thanked the disgraced former crime lab chemist Annie Dookhan who he credited with his early release.

“I just got out thanks to Annie Dookhan. I love that lady," Jamell T. Spurill said to Boston police after being busted on new charges.

(more at the link)


SJC: Even defendants who pleaded guilty can fight drug convictions

2014-03-06

The Supreme Judicial Court yesterday cleared the way for even defendants who pleaded guilty in drug cases handled by disgraced former state chemist Annie Dookhan to challenge their convictions, but set restrictions on how they can do so.

Defendants will not have to prove that Dookhan — convicted of wide-scale
 falsifying of drug evidence — behaved improperly in their cases, the SJC ruled. But Justice Francis Spina wrote that defendants looking to withdraw guilty pleas will have to prove they would have gone to trial instead had they known about her actions.

(article archived - no further info)

And who was in charge of the state the whole time this was going on? Mini Me, Devalued Patrick.

 

There is no telling how many people were coaxed into pleading guilty to try to get a shorter sentence. The government has hung that over people's heads for years.

 

The real bitch is that along with the potentially large number of cases where the defendant "may" have been acquitted with properly conducted tests, there are probably many more convictions that will be overturned in cases where the they would have been convicted.

Since most of the convictions are related to drug crimes, and since the stance on drug crimes has softened, IMO, it is unlikely that those released will ever be retried.

What a total waste of public funds, personal freedoms and public confidence in the judicial system.

 

Must have studied under THE BITCH

 

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water (cue Jaws music)

If you thought, "Drug Lab Drama: The Dipshit" (starring Annie Dookhan) was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Announcing "Drug Lab Drama II: The Druggie" - "Take drugs to make drugs to test drugs", starring Sonja Farak! "A pinch of this, a pinch of that..."

Sing along:

I can steal drug samples
Cook 'em up in the lab
Fuck up court cases till I get sent to rehab
Cuz I'm a druggie

Addicted chemist cooked crack in state lab, probe finds

Additional state evidence could be tainted

Matt Stout Wednesday, May 04, 2016

A former drug-addicted chemist at an Amherst state lab was dipping into samples for at least eight years to feed her habit — and even cooked crack cocaine inside the facility, according to a new state investigation of a case that could jeopardize thousands more criminal convictions than officials originally said.

The findings by Attorney General Maura Healey’s office, released yesterday under a court order, immediately widens what state officials had first classified at the time of Sonja Farak’s 2013 arrest as an isolated case.

Now defense attorneys are saying the 30,000 samples Farak tested — and perhaps more — are all in question and could expose the state to its second major drug lab scandal in four years.

“In some ways you’re looking at a scandal that’s going to be harder to deal with the ramifications of,” Northampton attorney Luke Ryan said of the potential impact of Farak’s misconduct compared to that of Annie Dookhan, the disgraced chemist who potentially tainted more than 40,000 cases by tampering with evidence at the Hinton Laboratory in Jamaica Plain.

That lab largely handled cases from Eastern Massachusetts. The Amherst lab dealt with Western Massachusetts, but also up to 300 samples monthly sent over from Hinton, officials said.

“There are (defendants) who probably couldn’t find Amherst on a map who are now going to be in a position to be notified of this,” Ryan said. “This is a statewide scandal and I think it’s going to take an enormous toll on the system.”

Anthony Benedetti, chief counsel of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, said given the wide range of Farak’s misconduct — which included smoking crack 10 to 12 times a day, including during work — “anyone whose cases came out of that lab should have the opportunity to challenge their conviction.”

Under order by the Supreme Judicial Court to investigate the full scope of Farak’s misconduct, Healey’s office found she admitted stealing drugs for her personal use on a “fairly regular basis” as early as 2004; manipulated the lab’s computer records to cover her tracks; and even used the lab after hours to cook crack cocaine using the state samples.

The full scope of the potentially impacted cases is unclear, though defense attorneys who have represented clients with cases involving Farak said she handled roughly 30,000 samples over her career. Ryan said that could mean “upwards of 10,000” defendants alone.

“The information we gathered during the course of our investigation is disturbing and will no doubt have implications for many cases,” said Cyndi Roy Gonzalez, a Healey spokeswoman, adding it will be up to the DA offices, defense attorneys and courts on “how best to proceed on each of these individual cases.”

Reached by phone last night, Berkshire County District Attorney David Capeless, the president of the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association, said he had yet to read the AG’s report.

Efforts to reach Farak — who has since been released from prison following an 18-month sentence — were unsuccessful.

 

Yet MORE ripple effect from Obama's Mini-Me (Deval Patrick) drug lab.


Somerville slay suspect previously freed as part of Annie Dookhan case fallout

11/7/17

The man accused of killing a former standout Somerville High running back is a so-called Dookhan defendant who was free at the time of the slaying thanks to charges being dropped in a prior drug case, court records show.

Tony Harris, 28, of Everett, was charged with murder, assault and firearm charges in the death of Kevin Raymond yesterday in Somerville District Court. Not-guilty pleas were entered on his behalf and he was ordered held without bail.

Harris, a professional mover, pumped three shotgun shells into Raymond in the early morning hours of Oct. 14 in a parking lot of a Somerville Housing Authority development, according to a state police affidavit.

In August, two months before the killing, Harris posted $5,000 bail for domestic assault charges and walked free after an Essex Superior Court judge reduced his bail from $50,000, after learning that a prior drug conviction was dropped in Middlesex Superior Court in 2013 because of the state drug lab scandal, according to court records. Harris had been arrested in 2016 on charges including strangulation, being a felon in possession of a firearm and property destruction, according to Essex DA’s office spokeswoman Carrie Kimball-Monahan, who said the earlier drug conviction was a factor in his original higher bail.

Charges against thousands of defendants have been dismissed since 2012 due to state drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan’s evidence tampering.

Raymond, who formerly attended Franklin Pierce University, died less than a week shy of his 21st birthday. One of two 19-year-olds who were sitting in a car with Raymond when a second vehicle pulled up told police Raymond was shot during a fight with the other driver. When the witness saw the firearm on the ground, he “picked it up and threw it over a fence to get it away from the suspect,” O’Brien said. Harris was arrested Friday. Investigators have matched his DNA profile to a broken gold chain found at the scene, O’Brien said.