Annie Dookhan (born 1977) is a former chemist of a Massachusetts crime lab who admitted to falsifying evidence, of focusing on African American people, affecting up to 34,000 cases
In January 2015, Benjamin Keehn, a prominent defense attorney with the Committee for Public Counsel Services, said that as many as 40,000 people could have been falsely convicted as a result of Dookhan's actions.
In May 2015, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that defendants whose convictions on drug charges were based on evidence potentially tainted by Dookhan can pursue retrials without having to face more charges or tougher sentences.
On April 18, 2017, Massachusetts dropped more than 21,000 low-level drug criminal charges involving Dookhan. Out of the 15,570 cases involved in her work only 117 will be pursued according to Daniel Conley, the district attorney in Suffolk County, which includes Boston.
In 2013, Dookhan pleaded guilty to 27 counts of misleading investigators, tampering with evidence and filing false reports. She was sentenced to three years in prison, plus probation. A year ago this month [April 2016], Dookhan was released.
This bytch didn't even serve 5 years?