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Former State chemist, Annie Dookhan, admitted faking test results and tampering with evidence for criminal cases which lead to thousands of misjudgments. Annie Dookhan, of Franklin, pleaded guilty this Friday morning to obstruction of justice, tampering with evidence and perjury. She has been sentenced to three to five years of imprisonment with a further addition to two years of probation.
Annie Dookhan did not show signs of any emotion during the trial but replied to questions asked by the judge. She said she was guilty and refused to address the court. She was taken out of the court in handcuffs and is expected to start serving her sentence in the state women’s prison in Framingham immediately. The state criminal justice system had to shut down the Department of Public Health lab Dookhan worked at after finding the extreme of delinquency. The prosecutors said that Annie Dookhan had admitted the fact that she was ‘dry labbing’ which meant that she tested only a small portion of a complete batch and listed it as positive for illegal drugs, only to ‘improve her productivity and burnish her reputation’.
Dookahns attorney and her parents did not comment after the hearing and left without answering questions from the reporters. ‘This ends one chapter in this situation, but the story goes on for the thousands of individuals whose lives have been affected by the conduct of Annie Dookhan,” said the chief counsel for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, Anthony Benedetti. ‘There are millions of dollars more that will be spent and a lot of time spent by a number of people in the criminal justice system trying to deal with the fallout of what happened in that lab.’
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