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24 Oct 2018, 12:43 pm by David Duncan
In 2011, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (“DPH”) discovered that state lab chemist Annie Dookhan had tampered with drug samples and falsified drug analyses submitted to DPH’s Hinton drug testing lab in Boston, where she was employed as an analyst, and that the tainted results were then used as evidence in criminal trials. [read post]
25 Sep 2012, 9:01 pm
Annie Dookhan has been accused of allegedly mishandling and manipulating evidence and testimony in hundreds of drug cases that were prosecuted between 2003 and March of 2012, when she retired from state employment. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 10:24 am by jlucivero
In Netflix’s new limited documentary series, How to Fix a Drug Scandal, the two drug lab technicians at the center of the scandal, Sonja Farak and Annie Dookhan, falsified forensic evidence and tampered with drugs resulting in over 61,000 dismissed drug charges across more than 37,000 cases. [read post]
28 Apr 2013, 6:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The author concluded, "The Texas example proves that the Massachusetts debacle cannot be blamed on Annie Dookhan alone. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 1:39 pm by davidharrisauthor
Here we are, more than a month after Annie Dookhan, former Massachusetts crime lab chemist, entered a guilty plea to producing fraudulent forensic testing results, and went to prison. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 1:39 pm by davidharrisauthor
Here we are, more than a month after chemist Annie Dookhan, formerly of the Massachusetts State Drug Laboratory, entered a guilty plea to producing fraudulent forensic testing results, and went to prison. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 12:00 pm
Here's the news for this week: Massachusetts' legislators held an oversight hearing to determine if anyone supervising Annie Dookhan, a chemist at the Hinton State Crime Lab, should also be held responsible for the alleged misconduct regarding faked drug results. [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 11:58 am
  It also uses a study that I supervised, previously reported on this blog, indicating that even in DNA cases adhering to the confrontation right does not result in a parade of lab witnesses.The Scotusblog article also summarizes the argument made by Sean Driscoll that the case of Annie Dookhan, who was cross-examined 150 times without her years of lab fraud being discovered shows the futility of cross in this context. [read post]
1 Oct 2012, 8:42 am
" According to the article, state drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan has been charged with two counts of obstruction of justice, for falsifying drug test results and for falsifying her academic record. [read post]
6 May 2014, 12:52 pm by Rob McKinney
One of the biggest cases was of Annie Dookhan who falsified thousands of drug reports . [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 5:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Annie Dookhan case in Massachusetts is an even bigger mess than was the Jonathan Salvador debacle in Texas. [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 7:15 am
This news follows the record-setting dismissal, in April, of 21,839 drug convictions tainted by the misconduct of Annie Dookhan, another former crime lab chemist. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 11:59 am by Michael DelSignore
Over 40,000 cases may have been tainted by Annie Dookhan may have been tainted by Annie Dookhan, a forensic scientist who pleaded guilty to forging initials of other chemists, intentionally contaminating samples, and just glancing at samples during analysis, instead of actually testing them. [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 4:52 am by Clark
You may or may not have heard of Annie Dookhan. [read post]
28 Nov 2013, 7:40 am
Annie Dookhan, a former forensic chemist at a state forensic laboratory in Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to 27 counts of falsifying test results, misleading investigators, and tampering with evidence. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 9:48 pm
Annie Dookhan, 34, was indicted following her September arrest for charges of falsifying drug evidence in thousands of cases. [read post]
2 Oct 2012, 8:02 am by The Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg
Although the chemist's job was centrally to test and confirm the identity of drugs that would be at issue in criminal cases involving drug possession, drug trafficking and other drug crimes, one fellow employee said that he never once saw Annie Dookhan look into a microscope. [read post]