Governor Deval Patrick named a prominent former prosecutor Thursday to lead a team of law enforcement officials and defense lawyers marshalled to investigate fears of widespread tampering at a state drug laboratory.
That announcement came shortly before two men were freed from prison because of concerns that evidence in their cases may have been tainted at the Jamaica Plain lab by a chemist who handled 60,000 drug samples during nine years.
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Why no talk about compensation for each wrongfully convivted prisoner?
Is that a cardboard cut-out of the governor behind Meier? Or is that him in the flesh? Welcome back home governor. Things have been spinning out of control since you were last here.
This is investigation will needlessly cost taxpayers a hugh bundle. Why would we trust Patrick to select the investigator - it needs to be done by an independent entity. This fiasco should never have happened. This is another example of fraud, waste and mismanagement of the State which shows that we do not need tax increases if the State was run properly. We need to institute severe penalties for elected officials who lack of good management and oversight contributed to loss of taxpayer funds.
Sounds like appropriate actions by both Mr. Patrick and Ms. Coakley.
I haven't read anything about Dookhan being brought up on charges. If she deliberately tainted samples in order to have people wrongly imprisoned they should throw the book at her. What kind of a monster would do something like that? Put her away for life!