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Chemist who falsified drug tests in criminal cases goes to jail herself
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 11/23/2013 | Fabien Tepper

Posted on 11/24/2013 7:25:18 AM PST by Rusty0604

Annie Dookhan, who was a state chemist for Massachusetts, pleaded guilty Friday and will serve three to five years in prison. As many as 350 people have already been released from jail as a result of her wrongdoing.

The Boston Globe suggested that a humble background left Dookhan with a big need to prove herself. "A petite 4 feet 11 inches and a native of Trinidad, Dookhan appeared determined even as a young immigrant girl to outrun expectations and the perceived anonymity of her circumstances," the Globe wrote in February. "Notably intelligent, 'Little Annie' Dookhan was going to make sure that she would never be overlooked."

According to The New York Times, at least 50 of the defendants who have been released from jail because of the scandal, now known as "Dookhan defendants," have been rearrested. Two were murdered upon their release, and one man, Donta Hood, who had been serving time for cocaine possession, is back behind bars after allegedly shooting a man during a drug dispute.

Jamell Spurill, who had been jailed on drug charges, was recently released but soon rearrested, charged with possessing a stolen gun, the Times reports. According to Dookhan's prosecutors, he told police, “I just got out thanks to Annie Dookhan. I love that lady.”

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; cultureofcorruption; donutwatch; fakebutaccurate; followthemoney; manufacturedevidence; nifongism
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1 posted on 11/24/2013 7:25:18 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Ms. Dookhan deserves 20 years.


2 posted on 11/24/2013 7:32:26 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Rusty0604

Looking at her picture... She got the “crazy eyes.”


3 posted on 11/24/2013 7:35:05 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Rusty0604

They never leave their Third World corruption behind when they come here and are immediately given a preference in hiring.


4 posted on 11/24/2013 7:41:29 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I didn’t see her picture


5 posted on 11/24/2013 7:42:48 AM PST by Shimmer1 (don 't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

And they get more sympathy when they get caught.


6 posted on 11/24/2013 7:47:15 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Shimmer1

7 posted on 11/24/2013 7:48:08 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

True.


8 posted on 11/24/2013 7:48:25 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Why thank you kind sir!!!


9 posted on 11/24/2013 7:56:23 AM PST by Shimmer1 (don 't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference)
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To: Shimmer1; Cowboy Bob

She kinda has the whole “Alvin and the Chipmunks” thing going....


10 posted on 11/24/2013 8:01:05 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: bamahead

ping


11 posted on 11/24/2013 8:01:12 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

I think it is more likely buying into feminist propaganda. Anything a man can do a woman can do better. Err I Remember them petite girls driving tractor trailers and couldn’t change a tire on their truck when I was in the army but they would brag how much a better driver they were then men. The story pretty much makes her out to be a braggart.


12 posted on 11/24/2013 8:05:56 AM PST by the_daug
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To: the_daug

Or girl mechanics in the Army that could not carry their tool boxes, yet got preferential treatment just because they were girls.


13 posted on 11/24/2013 8:13:27 AM PST by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Should have been shot IMHO.

When somebody undermines the confidence in the justice system, that to me is worthy of the death penalty.


14 posted on 11/24/2013 8:16:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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To: BenLurkin

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/lovely.wav


15 posted on 11/24/2013 8:17:41 AM PST by ErnBatavia (The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
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To: redfreedom
Wait, so it's not like GI Jane, where a girl can kick the crap out of a SEAL twice her size? And then lead a Direction Action into denied territory, all while still being a trainee?

I don't believe you. (In my best Ron Burgundy voice)

16 posted on 11/24/2013 8:20:44 AM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: dfwgator

Better 10 innocent men go to prison than one guilty man escape.....or something like that.


17 posted on 11/24/2013 8:21:42 AM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: Rusty0604
Is Kshama Sawant her sister?


18 posted on 11/24/2013 8:24:56 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Ms. Dookhan deserves 20 years.

She deserves a unique and different kind of sentence. One year for each year that an innocent man spent in prison because of her falsehoods. She can start right now, but the end date won't be known for quite a while. Possibly thousands of years.

19 posted on 11/24/2013 8:33:17 AM PST by CurlyDave
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To: Rusty0604
a year for every case overturned would be about right...
20 posted on 11/24/2013 8:36:08 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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