BOSTON (AP) — A chemist at the center of a scandal at a Massachusetts drug lab has refused to testify in a drug case against a Boston man who once spent 15 years in prison for the slaying of a 12-year-old girl he says he did not commit.
A lawyer for Shawn Drumgold asked a judge Wednesday to dismiss two drug charges because chemist Annie Dookhan’s initials appear on a drug analysis form indicating she tested the suspected cocaine and heroin.
Dookhan is charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly skirting protocols and faking test results at the now-closed lab.
Prosecutors say Dookhan’s name appears on a certificate used in court only as a notary and not as a tester of the substances.
Dookhan was in court, but pleaded the Fifth Amendment through her attorney.
She is costing the tax payers a lot of $$$$$$.
She should have to pay for each case that comes up before a judge for faking her credentials, falsifying documentation and just because she failed the taxpayers.
Hmmmm……I sense a strong “soon to be” on-going theme here!
I sincerely hope we don’t have to hear about every piece of paper this woman every signed or initialed.
HEY KEITH!! Did u ever think of all the ppl that got convicted unfairly because of her poor ignorant judgement. Her stupidity is costing us more than setting some supposely ”Criminal” free. I pray that they just throw her in jail without a fair trial. (TASTE OF HER OWN MEDICINE.) One of those convicted could of had been one of our family members or you. THINK OF IT.. : /
I hope they do scrutinize everything she was involved with. criminals are walking free because of this women’s incompetence
I don’t think she acted alone. It will come out…something is rancid about the whole situation and not just the obvious.
I don’t know who is the FB person at ch40, but either you’re having a rough day or you’re a cranky person. Calm down. And I resent that you deleted my post about Libya. You are proving me right.