Massachusetts’ Forensic Labs Scandal February Update
The new RIGGEDLabs Podcast episode this week brings new development with expert perspectives from the hosts. We last left off discussing how a group of defendants from Massachusetts Middlesex County and Suffolk County consolidated their cases and, after years of their attorneys pouring through tens of thousands of pages of discovery, are finally going to […]
RIGGED: Massachusetts’ William A Hinton State Laboratory Institute Scandal Series
Imagine sitting in a cell for a crime you didn’t commit. Pray this never happen to you nor another innocent person. Never again! They call it ‘dry-labbing’ – identifying a substance by looking at it rather than testing at the forensic lab. At the Massachusetts’ William A. Hinton MD State Laboratory Institute in Jamaica Plain, […]
Thinking Beyond the Classroom with RIGGEDLabs Podcast
The integrity of forensic evidence isn’t an abstract legal principle—it’s the bedrock of fair trials. When chemists like Annie Dookhan and Sonja Farak rigged drug tests in Massachusetts state labs, they didn’t just falsify results; they shattered thousands of lives, leading to the largest mass dismissal of wrongful convictions in U.S. history—over 61,000 tainted charges […]
