A chemist at a state drug-testing laboratory is accused of circumventing standard procedures in the handling of drug evidence, lapses that could jeopardize thousands of drug prosecutions and convictions in Massachusetts over the past several years, the head of the State Police said Thursday.
State Police Colonel Timothy P. Alben said the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Jamaica Plain, which had conducted about half of the state’s drug testing, was shut down Thursday as investigators probe the extent of the “malfeasance.”
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Horrible. How many innocent people have been wrongfully convicted. The State will have to pay for this in rightful compensations to the victims of this injustice.
Horrible. How many innocent people have been wrongfully convicted. The State will have to pay for this in rightful compensations to the victims of this injustice.
What a shame that nobody watches these people or makes sure they can actually do these jobs. I remember the idiots on the Boston fingerprint division that had no idea how to read finger prints. I have said it before and say it again:"Thers is not Justice in Boston" just street justice and this is why. We have idiots running the store, you want justice it a do it yourself job.
The problem is systemic and due to one tribe being in charge. I would expect these kinds of management failures to continue, year after year, until there is diversity on Beacon Hill. But, hey, it's probably the same in Athens (and this IS the Athens of America, remember).
Where was management?