Annie Dookhan, the chemist at the center of the state drug lab controversy, had the codes to access the lab’s computer system and could open the lab in the morning, one of Dookhan’s former colleagues testified Thursday.
Daniella Frasca, whose workstation was right next to Dookhan’s for eight years, was testifying in the Roxbury Municipal Court trial of Shawn Drumgold. Drumgold’s attorney is trying to discredit the drug evidence against her client by probing into the lab’s workings and suggesting Dookhan’s actions there tainted the evidence.
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I agree with the ACLU. The time to invest in the process was for an ongoing precise and thorough and protected process. To go back to try to "fix" 7 years of management neglect does not make financial sense. The drug "war" is stupid, in the first place. Big dealers pay big fines and get to plea bargain most of their sentence away. Small users or dealers or those whithout deep pockets get long sentences. (Correct me if this is not true for Mass.)