The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is set to hear arguments later this year on whether thousands of drug convictions in the state should be vacated.
A brief was filed last week to have the court toss eleven-thousand cases potentially tainted by Sonja Farak, who admitted to getting high on evidence while working as a chemist at a state drug lab in Amherst.
About eight-thousand cases were already dismissed in connection to Farak's misconduct and 17-thousand more cases were dismissed last year in the aftermath of a separate drug lab scandal.
(Photo Credit: iStockphoto)