The state’s district attorneys are taking their concerns over wrongdoing at a state drug-testing laboratory directly to Governor Deval Patrick, drafting a letter critical of the alleged mishandling of evidence and asking for more information to address what they have called a potentially damaging blow to the prosecution of thousands of cases.
The prosecutors and the state’s public defender’s office learned late Tuesday that a chemist at the center of a criminal investigation had been involved in handling more than 50,000 drug samples in an estimated 34,000 cases. Those cases may have to be reviewed to determine whether any evidence had been tainted, a task that could consume significant resources.
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This person shoud do the time that innocent people have done because of all the shoddy work done by a lazy person with no work ethic's. But this is typical of Democratic administrations.
I discovered in divorce court in Concord, MA, The Honerable Edward Ginsberg presiding, that the system was rigged.
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(If you'll remember Judge Ginsberg went on to be the "retired judge" who was put in charge of pursing Big Dig fraud -- probably as a reward for being a "good old boy" and a "team player"; Until he was removed I believe he spent more on lawyers, ie, expenses. than he recovered for the Commonwealth.)
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So what do I mean by rigged? Namely this: the system is not able to distinguish fact from manufactured fact (in other words, from fiction). Once you have corrupted the system in this way, then ANYTHING is possible, ANYTHING doable. It will certainly take a bit of time and a process, depending on what it is you are trying to accomplish. One thing leads to another, which leads to another (and each "another" is bogus), and eventually the result the system wants (in other words, the power brokers) seems like the only reasonable (and inevitable choice).
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So, don't tell me power brokers "did not know", and don't tell me strings were pulled, and people punished who were innocent, and vice versa (speaking of vice). You know it, and I know it. This is just the Big Dig, and the Probation Department all over again. And this SEEMS to be SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) in the state of Massachusetts. Is it this way in other states? Sure. In SOME other states I have no doubt. In MOST other states? I don't know but I doubt it. In fact, I would venture to say that there are states where corruption is minimal (though I don't have the "evidence" to prove that).
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Clearly is should be a requirement that the anyone involved with the chain of evidence should have oversight and checks done on them and their work. And mistakes will still happen, but there needs to be a process in place to detect them, or, at least, to allow defendents who KNOW there has been a mistake to get validation from somewhere NOT UNDER CONTROL OF THE STATE (in another state or federal). Where there is incompetency and intentional "mistakes" there needs to be quick detection and CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
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The system corruption we see here is a logical consequence of one party rule. The solution is not just more Repulications, although that would be likely to help. The solution is rules changes to facilitate 3rd party candidates. Rules in government, rules in the press, rules in debates, etc.
akb48 wrote, "This person shoud do the time that innocent people have done because of all the shoddy work done by a lazy person with no work ethic's. But this is typical of Democratic administrations."
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Ah, see, you swallowed the Kool Aid. Most people do. It's not the management, the system, it's a "lazy person". That's just what they want the public to think. Gets management and the system off the hook. Fry (scapegoat) the "lazy person" and get on with it.