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Lawyers: Dismissed drug convictions mostly for freed inmates

By BOB SALSBERG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2013 file photo, former state chemist Annie Dookhan sits in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Dookhan pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and falsifying thousands of tests in criminal drug cases, calling into question evidence used to prosecute the defendants. The state's highest court ordered the district attorneys in Massachusetts to produce lists by Tuesday, April 18, 2017, indicating how many of the approximately 24,000 tainted cases they would not or could not prosecute if new trials were ordered. (David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool, File)

The Latest: Prosecutors toss thousands of tainted drug cases

Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2013 file photo, former state chemist Annie Dookhan sits in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Dookhan pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and falsifying thousands of tests in criminal drug cases, calling into question evidence used to prosecute the defendants. The state's highest court ordered the district attorneys in Massachusetts to produce lists by Tuesday, April 18, 2017, indicating how many of the approximately 24,000 tainted cases they would not or could not prosecute if new trials were ordered. (David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool, File)

Prosecutors move to toss more than 21,000 tainted drug cases

By BOB SALSBERG - Associated Press

Court orders compromise in drug cases tainted by lab scandal

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

Massachusetts Inspector General Glenn A. Cunha releases the findings of his investigation of the Hinton Drug Lab at the offices of the Inspector General as Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, left, looks on during a media availability in Boston, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The Hinton Drug Lab was shut down in 2012 in the wake of criminal acts by forensic chemist Annie Dookhan. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Report cites rash of problems at Mass. drug lab

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

Mass. legal group says labs need more oversight

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

Annie Dookhan (center) sits between two unidentified men in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston moments before her arraignment on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. Ms. Dookhan, the former chemist at the center of a drug-testing scandal, pleaded not guilty to charges including perjury and tampering with evidence. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)

Mass. chemist arraigned in drug-lab scandal

By Bridget Murphy - Associated Press

American Scene: Mass. attorney general wants probe of drug lab tainted by scandal

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick speaks with reporters in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. Mr. Patrick said he expects criminal charges will be brought in an investigation of misconduct by a state lab chemist who admitted faking drug-sample results, forging signatures and skipping proper procedures. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Mass. governor expects charges in lab scandal

By Bridget Murphy - Associated Press

David Meier (right), special consul to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and leader of the review of drug convictions that might have been compromised at a state police drug testing lab, conducts a meeting at the Department of Public Safety in Boston on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Chemist’s education questioned in Mass. drug lab scandal

By Denise Lavoie - Associated Press