Chemist who faked criminal drug case results out of prison

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Chemist who faked criminal drug case results out of prison

Updated 4:51 pm, Tuesday, April 12, 2016

BOSTON (AP) — A former drug lab chemist convicted of faking test results and tampering with evidence, leading to a review of tens of thousands of criminal cases, is out of prison.

Annie Doohkan has been paroled, a spokesman for the Massachusetts prisons system confirmed to the Boston Herald (http://bit.ly/1SvNIah ). Nicolas Gordon, the attorney who represented Dookhan during her criminal case, said she was released about a month ago.

Dookhan tampered with evidence while working as a testing chemist at a Boston lab operated by the Department of Public Health. She was sentenced to three to five years in prison in November 2013.

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But while Dookhan is now free, thousands of people are still in prison awaiting a chance to challenge convictions made on possibly tainted evidence, the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday in response to the news.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Key-player-in-Massachusetts-drug-lab-scandal-out-7242987.php

[KelleyKramer]

1. They should add up all the years

of everyone she falsely convicted, and times it by 3 and that should have been her sentence

[Stryder]

2. Sounds as if

1 year to 1 year would be more than a few life sentences.
But looks like 3 yrs will satisfy lady justice.
(She's just lucky she wasn't busted selling a couple grams of the Demon Weed.)

[C Moon]

3. I don't know the law, but I feel she should have been given something like 20 years!!

"In January 2015, Benjamin Keehn, a prominent defense attorney with the Committee for Public Counsel Services, said that as many as 40,000 people could have been falsely convicted as a result of Dookhan's actions."

What a selfish JERK! I hope she never finds work again!

[sofa king]

4. Now the gal is doomed.

In prison she was probably kept on the cop-and-snitch floor, and kept away from inmates who were harmed by her actions.

But now she's free and her mute conviction is far more valuable to inmates than her live and totally unreliable testimony, especially to those who were rightfully convicted.

Her death is their ticket out.