The Committee for Public Counsel Services, CPCS Attorney Rebecca A. Jacobstein, Esquire and CPCS Attorney Benjamin H. Keehn appearing on behalf of CPCS, is seeking remedies for prosecutorial misconduct in connection with drug convictions in Massachusetts relating to wrongdoing by former state chemist Sonia Farak at the Amherst State Drug Lab. Below is a link to the argument before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and various media coverage of the argument:
- http://www.suffolk.edu/sjc/pop-missing.php?csnum=SJC_12471
- http://www.gazettenet.com/Massachusetts-Supreme-Court-hears-arguments-on-whether-to-dismiss-more-cases-tied-to-Sonja-Farak-Amherst-drug-lab-scandal-17376632
- https://www.wral.com/court-to-weigh-fallout-of-massachusetts-drug-lab-misconduct/17538443/
- https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/court-asked-to-toss-more-cases-tied-to-drug-lab-scandal/
- http://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampshire-county/aclu-to-request-conviction-dismissal-in-all-cases-involving-former-amherst-chemist/1164229802
- http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/05/ag_maura_healey_more_cases_may.html
- http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/05/08/sjc-ag-drug-lab
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/05/08/sjc-considers-tossing-out-more-drug-cases/uysMN7xv85sHZy5fV2dvPP/story.html
- http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/business/article210679709.html