Annie Dookhan, who worked as a chemist at the Hinton drug lab, was arrested in September 2012. In November 2013, she pleaded guilty to more than two dozen counts, including misleading investigators, filing false reports, and tampering with evidence. She was sentenced to three to five years in prison, of which she served approximately two and a half years.
The Hinton lab scandal has led to the dismissal of more than 20,000 drug convictions, most of them in April 2017 as a result of the Bridgeman II litigation before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Coming soon. In the meantime, check out the whole Dookhan archive here.
Federal
- Johnson v. Han et al, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1:14-cv-13274. Filed 08/08/2014.
Massachusetts (appellate)
- Kevin Bridgeman & others vs. District Attorney for the Suffolk District & others (BRIDGEMAN II), Supreme Judicial Court, 476 Mass. 298 (SJC-12157). Decided January 18, 2017. Opinion here. Docket here.
- Kevin Bridgeman & others vs. District Attorney for the Suffolk District & others (BRIDGEMAN I), Supreme Judicial Court, 471 Mass. 465 (SJC-11764). Decided May 18, 2015. Opinion here. Docket here.
- Commonwealth vs. Rakim D. Scott, Supreme Judicial Court, 467 Mass. 336 (SJC-11465). Decided March 5, 2014. Opinion here. Docket here.
- Dookhan defendants sue for return of probation fees, S. Musgrave. February 23, 2018, Boston Globe. [Permalink.]
- SJC hears arguments on state’s handling of Hinton lab scandal, S. Musgrave. February 8, 2018, Boston Globe. [Permalink.]
- Judge orders Dookhan to pay $2m to wrongly convicted man, S. Musgrave. June 22, 2017, Boston Globe. [Permalink.]
- District Attorneys Send Notices To Thousands Of Dookhan Defendants, S. Musgrave. June 6, 2017, WGBH News. [Permalink.]
- Prosecutors will drop thousands of cases in Dookhan scandal, S. Musgrave. April 19, 2017, Boston Globe. [Permalink.]