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MA Highest Court Issues Ruling in Scandal Involving 24,000 Tainted Drug Tests – Can You Appeal?

In 2012, former drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan was caught tampering with evidence and falsifying test results in thousands of criminal drug cases. For her crime, Dookhan spent three years behind bars. But what about the falsified tests? More than 24,000 drug convictions may have been involved in the tampering…

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Brendan Dassey, of Making a Murderer Fame, Scheduled to be Released from Prison

The Netflix series “Making a Murderer” aired earlier this year and quickly became one of the pioneering network’s most popular documentaries. The series centered around the 2007 sexual assault and murder of a photographer, and the possible framing of several individuals. One of those individuals, then-16-year-old Brendan Dassey, was questioned…

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SJC Hearing Arguments to Dismiss Over 20,000 Massachusetts Drug Cases

Four years ago, Massachusetts state chemist, Annie Dookhan, was convicted of falsifying drug tests and tampering with evidence in thousands of criminal cases. Although Dookhan has completed her three-year prison sentence, many of the individuals whose drug samples she tampered with are still waiting for their time in court. But…

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SJC RULES THAT RUNNING FROM BOSTON POLICE DOES NOT NECESSARILY INDICATE GUILT

In Twelve Step programs, one of the steps to recovery is to “make amends” to people you have wronged. Well, while I am not involved in such a program at present, I do owe you, my readers, an amends. I left you hanging during the police cam festivities, hinting that…

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A SUCCESSFUL CRIMINAL APPEAL ABOUT THE “NECESSITY” DEFENSE BRINGS REALITY BACK INTO THE COURTROOM (Part Two)

You have probably heard the notion that being broke is not a crime in the United States. After all, they can’t prosecute you simply for being poor, can they? Well, kinda- sorta. Try not being able to pay restitution, probation fees or other court costs when you are on probation…! A…

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MASSACHUSETTS MURDER ON IS DISTURBED ON CRIMINAL APPEAL

Darkens Bonnett (hereinafter the “Defendant”) is a gent who stands charged and convicted of first-degree murder. Well, at least he was. The Defendant’s case has been remanded back to trial court to deal with a problem regarding discovery. The Supreme Judicial Court found prejudicial error in his case upon reviewing…

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