March Evidentiary Hearing – Week One: Jamie Folk Reports

Massachusetts William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute Forensic Laboratories Scandals Evidentiary Hearing 2026

Jamie Folk reports and comes forward with what he observed during the first week of this month’s evidentiary hearings at the Massachusetts Middlesex County Superior Court. An evidentiary hearing is a formal court proceeding where a judge reviews evidence and hears witness testimony to resolve specific factual disputes or determine the admissibility of evidence. Similar […]

Thinking Beyond the Classroom with RIGGEDLabs Podcast

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 […]