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NEW BEDFORD - Over 1,500 drug cases pending in district and superior courts are being dropped by the Bristol County District Attorney's Office as a direct result of a former state drug lab chemist's tampering with evidence. District attorneys across Massachusetts are submitting to the Supreme Judicial Court today the cases they would not or could not prosecute if new trials were ordered due to Ann

BOSTON (AP) - District attorneys in Massachusetts are facing a key deadline as they continue to deal with the damage caused by the misconduct of a former state drug lab chemist. The state's highest court ordered the DAs to produce lists by Tuesday indicating how many of the approximately 24,000 tainted cases they would not or could not prosecute if new trials were ordered...

The state's highest court has ruled that thousands of defendants convicted of drug crimes after a chemist in a Massachusetts lab tampered with evidence cannot be charged with a more serious crime or given a harsher sentence if they seek a new trial...

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the highest court in Massachusetts to come up with a comprehensive plan for handling thousands of criminal cases tainted by a scandal at a state drug lab.       Chemist Annie Dookhan was sentenced in November to serve at least three years in prison for faking test results and tampering with evidence at the lab...

A chemist at a Massachusetts drug lab accused of faking test results in criminal cases has been sentenced to three to five years in prison.       Annie Dookhan, of Franklin, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, perjury and tampering with evidence. Fri...

Prosecutors and a lawyer for a Massachusetts chemist charged in a far-reaching scandal at a state drug-testing lab plan to meet with a judge to discuss a possible guilty plea.   Getty Images    Annie Dookhan is charged with obstruction of justice, perjury and other counts for allegedly faking test results, tampering with evidence and ignoring testing protocols.  ...

A lawyer appointed by the Massachusetts governor to review prosecutions connected to a state lab scandal found that the drug cases of more than 40,000 defendants may have been tainted.       David Meier led a file-by-file review of narcotics cases in which former state chemist Annie Dookhan tested samples...

The former chemist at the center of a drug testing scandal at a now-closed Massachusetts lab has pleaded not guilty to charges including perjury and tampering with evidence.       Annie Dookhan was arraigned Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court...

A Massachusetts chemist accused of deliberately faking test results on drug samples in criminal cases has been indicted on 27 charges.       Annie Dookhan, of Franklin, was first arrested in September on two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of pretending to hold a degree...

More defendants are expected to challenge their convictions this week based on a testing scandal at a Massachusetts drug lab, including a man currently under indictment for murder and another man who served time behind bars for killing a neighborhood cat and burning its remains...