Annie Dookhan

In a move that could affect tens of thousands of drug convictions in Boston and the rest of Suffolk County, District Attorney Rachael Rollins pledged on Monday to vacate any that are tied to two convicted Massachusetts state drug lab chemists. Anyone whose drug certification was done by Annie Dookhan or Sonja Farak at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory…

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins has filed a motion to vacate over 100 convictions linked to a 2012 state drug lab scandal. The motion filed late Monday moves to vacate 108 so-called “List Three” convictions in Suffolk County Rollins says are “tainted” by misconduct by former state drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan. Authorities discovered Dookhan tampered with evidence and…

The state police agency that certifies the reliability of breath tests administered to suspected drunken drivers routinely failed to provide information that could be helpful to defense attorneys, according to investigators from the state’s Executive Office of Public Safety.

A federal judge in Massachusetts has awarded more than $2 million to a man wrongly convicted by a former state drug lab chemist who pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and falsifying tests.

The NBC Boston Investigators have exclusively learned the senate is proposing a crime lab audit law to detect and prevent the mishandling of evidence in the state’s crime lab.

The highest court in Massachusetts has formally approved the dismissal of more than 21,000 drug convictions that were tainted by the misconduct of a former state drug lab chemist.

Prosecutors in Massachusetts moved Tuesday to dismiss thousands of drug convictions tainted by a former state drug lab chemist who pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and falsifying tests.