More Defendants Released in JP Drug Lab Scandal
On Friday, two alleged criminals went free and another had a prosecution against him dropped because evidence against them had been handled by a chemist accused of tainting thousands of samples at at Jamaica Plain lab.
More defendants got out on bail or had cases dropped on Friday as shocks from the actions of a "rogue chemist" continue to shake the justice system. The state is culling through 34,000 cases where drug evidence was handled by chemist Annie Dookhan. She's accused of tainting drug samples during years of employment at the State Drug Lab in Jamaica Plain. On Friday the state cycled 19 defendants through one courtroom at Boston Municipal Court. In a process pointedly criticized by Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley as a waste of time and resources, few of the cases turned out to have any link to Dookhan. Only five of the 19, according to a Boston Globe count, were handled by the chemist at the shuttered Jamaica Plain lab. Two men went…
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