The state drug lab chemist who is accused to tampering with evidence will be put on GPS monitoring and must adhere to a curfew.
A diminutive Annie Dookhan walked into Suffolk Superior Court Wednesday morning where she was arraigned on 15 of the 27 charges against her in the state drug lab crisis. Dookhan pleaded not guilty to four counts of obstruction of justice, eight counts of tampering with evidence and one count of falsely pretending to hold a degree from a college or university. Charges are pending against Dookhan in other counties as well. Assitant Attorney General Anne Kaczmarek, who is prosecuting the case, said Dookhan allegedly tampered with drug vials while working at the lab and admitted to forging a lab officer’s initials on a drug sample. "She would make the drugs match the objective test," she said. Kaczmarek listed two instances where the true test…
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The Hinton Drug Lab chemist at the center of the situation will be arraigned on 27 charges.
The chemist who is accused of tampering with evidence in 34,000 state drug criminal cases will be in court today. Annie Dookhan was indicted Monday on 27 charges related to evidence tampering while she was a chemist at the now shut down Hinton Drug Lab in Jamaica Plain. She will appear in Suffolk Superior Court at 9:30 a.m. The statewide grand jury indictment included 17 counts of obstruction of justice, eight counts of tampering with evidence, perjury and falsely pretending to hold a degree from a college or university, according to a press statement from Attorney General Martha Coakley's office. Authorities allege that Dookhan obstructed justice by falsely certifying drug analyses, or causing others to do so, when she knew the results …
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Since September, four people facing serious drug charges have been issued a continuance or otherwise freed due to the state drug lab crisis only to be arrested a subsequent time.
BOSTON, MA -- Four violent convicts have been released and re-arrested in the wake of the state drug lab scandal, and a Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office spokesman says if the trends play out as they should, it’s only the beginning. In most cases involving evidence that was tested by Annie Dookhan, the state drug lab chemist who allegedly mishandled evidence in thousands of cases, prosecutors have been able to negotiate pleas and have not had to re-litigate, Suffolk County DA spokesman Jake Wark said in an interview. If the facts surrounding a case involve evidence that does not have to do directly with Dookhan, the conviction will typically stand, according to documents provided by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. …
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Epyon777
5:51 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
This woman destroyed people's lives. that would be the nicest term I could think to call that woman. whole families were destroyed by her biased. go find something else to gripe about Hillary. I'm sure someone is cutting down a tree in their backyard you you can go cry about more ›