Final cost of forensic chemist’s misconduct still being counted

Thousands of additional criminal drug cases resulted in wrongful convictions and must be vacated and dismissed because of egregious misconduct by Massachusetts crime lab chemist Sonja Farak, the highest court in Massachusetts has ruled. The 11 October decision by the Massachusetts supreme judicial court to throw out these criminal drug charges comes atop its dismissal back in April of approximately 8000 drug convictions that were based on Farak’s analysis because they may have been compromised by her behaviour.