Crime & Safety
Suffolk County District Attorney Rollins To Appeal Hinton Drug Cases To SJC For 'Systemic Remedy'
As part of her Hinton Lab Initiative, DA Rollins has pledged to vacate Suffolk County drug convictions.
October 6, 2021
BOSTON, Oct. 6, 2021 — District Attorney Rachael Rollins said today that she would appeal the decision of Superior Court Judge Michael D. Ricciuti refusing to send to the state’s Supreme Judicial Court a case to seek a global resolution of thousands of cases tainted by egregious misconduct and significant mismanagement and lapses of oversight of any kind at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute.
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As part of her Hinton Lab Initiative, DA Rollins has pledged to vacate Suffolk County drug convictions for any individual whose drug certification was completed at the severely mismanaged Jamaica Plain facility between May 2003 and August 2012. This is the entire period of time in which either now disgraced and convicted chemists Annie Dookhan or Sonja Farak worked at the facility, and up until it was ordered closed by Governor Deval Patrick due to abject failure of oversight at the lab. Yesterday’s filing is part of that effort.
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