Commonwealth v. Escobar

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So ordered .

The now well-known saga surrounding the Hinton drug lab stemmed from the egregious misconduct of former laboratory employee Annie Dookhan. See, e.g., Bridgeman v. District Attorney for the Suffolk Dist ., 476 Mass. 298 , 300, 67 N.E.3d 673 (2017) (setting forth protocol to address legacy of Dookhan's misconduct and to protect rights of affected defendants). Although the samples in Escobar's case were analyzed at the Hinton drug lab, in December, 2008, they were not analyzed by Dookhan. Escobar, therefore, is not among the thousands of defendants whose cases have thus far…