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  • Boston Globe: SJC considers tossing out 11,000 more drug cases

  • WBUR: Mass. High Court Considers Fining AG's Office In Drug Lab Case

  • ABC News: Court asked to levy fines for misconduct in lab scandal

  • Boston Globe: Attorney General Healey promises changes after drug lab scandal

  • Boston Globe: Judge dismisses more than 7,000 Amherst drug lab cases

  • Sentinel & Enterprise: 11,000 drug convictions officially tossed

  • MassLive: Thousands of convictions tainted by disgraced Amherst drug lab analyst Sonja Farak vacated

  • WBUR: 11,000 Convictions Ordered For Dismissal In Chemist Case

  • Boston Globe: Defense lawyers ask court to toss 11,000 more cases in Amherst drug lab scandal

  • Daily Hampshire Gazette: Dismissal sought for 11K cases tied to Amherst drug lab scandal

  • Mass Live: Annie Dookhan drug defendants ask state to reimburse their court fees and fines; Mass. could owe millions

  • Boston Globe: Dookhan defendants sue for return of probation fees

  • Boston Herald: Drug Lab Scandal: SJC to decide of defendants get money back

  • Commonwealth Magazine: The cost of the drug war

  • Boston Herald: Judge set to toss 8,000 drug cases tied to scandal

  • Courthouse News: Massachusetts primes for dismissal of thousands of drug cases

  • MassLive: Around 8,000 Massachusetts drug cases touched by Sonja Farak could be dismissed next week

  • Boston Herald: SJC to rule on ex-prosecutors' alleged misconduct in Farak cases

  • Boston Globe: SJC to decide whether to dismiss all cases connected to former drug lab chemists

  • MassLive: Massachusetts high court to hear case involving fallout from disgraced state drug lab chemist Sonja Farak's conduct

  • Boston Herald: Full List of Annie Dookhan defendants sought

  • ACLU Blog: 30,000 Tainted Convictions, One Path Forward

  • Rolling Stone: And Justice For None: Inside Biggest Law Enforcement Scandal in Massachusetts History

  • CBS News: 8,000 drug convictions could be dismissed in Massachusetts

  • Washington Post: Massachusetts prosecutors to throw out 8,000 convictions in second drug lab scandal

  • MassLive: More than 8,000 drug cases tainted by chemist Sonja Farak

  • MassLive: Tainted drug cases cause irreparable damage (Editorial)

  • WBUR: 6,000 Cases May Be Dismissed After Former State Chemist Misconduct

  • Boston Herald: DAs to dump 7,500 more drug convictions

  • Reuters: Massachusetts prosecutors to toss 6,000 cases tied to drug chemist

  • New York Times: 6,000 Drug Cases Tainted by Lab Scandal to Be Dismissed

  • Washington Post: Prosecutors slammed for ‘lack of moral compass,’ withholding evidence in widening Mass. drug lab scandal

  • Slate: Prosecutors Lied About a Chemist Who Tainted 18,000 Convictions. Time to Overturn Them All.

  • Alternet: Thousands of Cases Tainted in New Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal

  • Courthouse News: ACLU Calls Thousands of Massachusetts Drug Cases Tainted

  • MassLive: ACLU asks for dismissal of all drug cases affected by Sonja Farak misconduct

  • WBUR: Mass. High Court Is Asked To Dismiss Cases Tied To Ex-State Drug Lab Chemist

  • Boston Globe: Court petition asks for dismissal of all cases touched by former drug lab chemist Farak

  • Boston Herald: Lawyers ask SJC to toss mountain of cases tied to disgraced chemist

  • Law360: ACLU Urges Mass. Justices To Toss Tainted Drug Convictions

  • NECN: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Asked to Dismiss Cases Tied to Former Drug Lab Chemist

  • Slate: Prosecutors Made Massachusetts’ Drug Lab Scandal Much, Much Worse

  • WBUR: Hearings Dive Into Ex-State Chemist's Drug Abuse, And What The AG's Office Knew

  • NECIR: Luke Ryan on finding undisclosed Farak evidence

  • WGBH: Judge Pushes Prosecutors For More Emails In Farak Drug-Testing Case

  • Washington Post: Mass. crime chemist admits daily drug use in lab, sparking a second scandal

  • WBUR: Reports: Ex-Mass. Chemist At Amherst Drug Lab High At Work For 8 Years

  • MassLive: Defense lawyers want more details on drug use of Sonja Farak, ex-Massachusetts chemist who tampered with samples

  • Slate: Crime Lab Scandals Just Keep Getting Worse

 

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