"His conviction was overturned when The Boston Globe and Scapicchio raised questions about the investigation and the failure of police to turn over poten­tially exculpatory evidence about a key eyewitness in the case."

COMMENT: So typical. Police sometimes will either hide or even falsify evidence, thinking they are doing the right thing. They may want someone convicted because they believe he is. Men, you are not the judge and jury. What they do is to trample on what is becoming now more and more rare in our court rooms,  full disclosure and full justice.

Thank you, Boston Globe, for keeping an eye out.

Defense lawyers have ­argued that Dookhan’s work has jeopardized the integrity of all cases handled at the laboratory during her years there.

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Yes, but not only because of Dookhan's work, because of the lack of management validation. Dookhan, by her own admission, was manipulating test results for years. And she was never caught by management. So, it is obvious also that if any of the other chemists made a mistake (which human being do, even the best human beings), or had an agenda for a certain case, or a few cases, or many cases, that the manipulated results would never have been detected. Therefore, there should be no confidence that the drug test results are correct -- any of the test results by anyone in that lab. Furthermore, if this is the way management operated in other drug labs under the same management hierarchy then those results are also suspect.

This case is more and more looking like the Berlin Wall of the drug war in Massachusetts.