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"MASSACHUSETTS — In a maddening scandal that is rocking the state of Massachusetts, a government crime lab chemist has been caught intentionally forging signatures and tampering with evidence in as many as 40,000 cases, destroying the lives of countless innocent Americans.

Annie Dookhan worked as a chemist for the State of Massachusetts, and it turns out she had close relations with prosecutors.

These prosecutors were able to successfully convict innocent Americans because Dookhan would chemically taint the “evidence,” resulting in career boosts for the prosecutors while innocent men and women were torn from their families and locked in cells.

Prosecutors praised Dookhan’s work and depended on her to get the convictions they wanted.

Hundreds of “convicts” and defendents have already been released, and there are potentially thousands more waiting to be set free."
Dookhan used her position to forge results for nearly a decade. ”I don’t think anyone ever perceived that one person was capable of causing this much chaos,” said Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey.

“You can see the entire walls full of boxes… in one of these cardboard boxes, there could be hundreds of cases … in each box,” said Morrissey.

Hundreds of defendants and “convicts” had been arguing that they were framed and claiming that the evidence used to convict them was mishandled. They were right.

In one recent case, a man was charged with “selling cocaine and heroin.” His public defender, Julieann Hernon, believes that this man was a potential victim of Dookhan’s fake evidence and ought to be released.

“[Dookhan] was mis-testing evidence, dry-labbing evidence, saying she had ‘conducted tests’ when she had not, deliberately tainting drugs,” said Hernon.

“Certainly, I think, we have to presume a taint here when Annie Dookhan was the chemist in the case,” said Hernon.

In another recent case, defense attorney William Sullivan was able to successfully reverse his client’s prior “guilt” because Dookhan was the secondary chemist involved in the conviction.

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Many other innocents have lost their careers, lost their children, and lost their marriages.

“This is a lab that was pretty much wholly and fully contaminated by Ms. Annie Dookhan,” Sullivan told the judge. “She had full access to everyone’s drugs.”




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Continued.. The Annie Dookhan Story

 "While many have been set free, they will never get the lost years of their lives back.

“The tragedy is that my client already did four years on this,” said Sullivan. “I mean, that is disturbing in itself.”

Many other innocents have lost their careers, lost their children, and lost their marriages.

Michael Morrissey, Norfolk County District Attorney, is now sifting through thousands of files to find out which should be thrown out because of Dookhan’s corruption and deceit.

In federal court, many innocents received even harsher sentences due to prior convictions based on Annie Dookhan’s fake “evidence.”

Several civil suits are getting started by those accused of crimes based on Dookhan’s tampering, accusing Dookhan of trampling on their rights to fair trials.

“I screwed up big time. I messed up. I messed up bad. It’s my fault. I don’t want the lab to get in trouble,” Dookhan was reported as saying.


Of course, Dookhan’s “screw up” — a “screw up” that she intentionally committed for nearly a decade — will never bring back the lives that have been destroyed.

In analyzing Dookhan’s career, it was found that she also routinely invented fanciful job titles for herself. Examples include “special agent of operations” and “on-call terrorism super­visor.” She would testify in court as an “expert.”

She maintained her composure year after year as innocents were bound and forced into prison cages.

The relationships she had with prosecutors are also under scrutiny. Dookhan once told a prosecutor in an email that she couldn’t use her expert testimony at a trial. The prosecutor replied, “No no no!!! I need you!!!”

Was the prosecutor intentionally depending on Dookhan’s deception to score a conviction and a career boost?"


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DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - "A former Massachusetts chemist accused of faking test results at a state drug lab and endangering thousands of criminal cases pleaded not guilty Wednesday to five counts of obstruction of justice.

Annie Dookhan's plea in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham is part of a series of arraignments in six different counties, including two on Wednesday.

Dookhan didn't comment after her appearances in Norfolk County or her earlier appearance at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn. She was charged with two counts of obstruction of justice in Norfolk and three in Middlesex.

Dookhan was indicted last month on a total of 27 charges. Prosecutors have accused her of fabricating test results and tampering with drug evidence while testing substances in criminal cases. The scandal threatens to unravel thousands of drug convictions.

After her arraignment Wednesday, her lawyer, Nicolas Gordon, said he has not agreed to consolidate the cases in various counties at this point because he has not seen all the evidence yet.

"Until I see all the discovery, I'm not sure that's the appropriate track," Gordon said. "It may add up to piling on. If one fact-finder were to hear all the facts, it might not be fair to Annie."

Gordon said he could later agree to consolidate the cases.

Dookhan pleaded not guilty to similar charges last month in Suffolk Superior Court, where she was freed on $10,000 bail.

Middlesex and Norfolk prosecutors agreed to let her go on personal recognizance Wednesday.

Dookhan, 35, of Franklin, resigned in March during an internal investigation by the state Department of Public Health. State police closed the lab in August after taking over its operation and discovering the extent of Dookhan's alleged misconduct.

Authorities have said Dookhan tested more than 60,000 samples covering 34,000 defendants during her nine years at the DPH lab. An estimated 200 convicted defendants have been released from jail and had their cases put on hold while their legal challenges make their way through the courts.

Dookhan's husband, Surren Dookhan, warned a state prosecutor that his wife was a habitual liar years before she was caught, according to a published report.

In state police documents obtained by The Boston Globe, former assistant Norfolk District Attorney George Papachristos told police that Surren Dookhan contacted him in August 2009 after he befriended Dookhan.

According to the documents, Surren Dookhan texted to the prosecutor in August 2009 that his wife was "always lying" and looking for "sympathy and attention."

Authorities have expressed concern about convicted drug dealers who have already been put back on the street while they challenge their convictions.

On Tuesday, a Chelsea man was arrested for drinking beer and refusing to leave a McDonald's restaurant.

Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley, said that while the man was being led out by Chelsea police, he allegedly said, "I just got out on Annie Dookhan, and I ain't going back to jail."

Wark said the man began thrashing violently against the officers holding him before being restrained. He said officers found eight baggies of suspected crack cocaine in his belongings.

The man was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Chelsea District Court."


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