BOSTON — After they vacate and dismiss charges against individuals whose criminal cases were irrevocably tainted by disgraced chemist Annie Dookhan, state prosecutors by mid-May will need to alert remaining defendants of their rights to seek dismissal of old drug convictions, the state's highest court ruled Wednesday.The 2012 exposure of Dookhan's widespread fraud within the old Department of Public Health crime lab threw thousands of drug convictions into question, [...]
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