Some 20,000 convicted drug offenders in Massachusetts will likely have their cases thrown out because of a rogue state police chemist who brazenly fabricated evidence. “What we’re told is somewhere between 500 and 1,000 cases ― the ones they think are serious ― will be kept,” Carl Williams, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, told The Huffington Post. Williams said Dookhan was involved in roughly 24,000 questionable drug cases involving about 20,000 defendants. The cases were prosecuted in the Bristol, Cape & Islands, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk districts. The district attorneys’ offices have until April 18 to notify the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court which among the cases involving Dookhan can realistically be retried.

Source: Huffington Post March 31, 2017 21:56 UTC