Commonwealth v. Baez

Lowy, David A., J.

On May 9, 2011, the defendant, Emmanuel Baez (“Mr. Baez”), pleaded guilly to trafficking cocaine in an amount of fourteen grams or more, G.L.c. 94C, §32E(b), and possession of a class B substance with intent to distribute, G.L.c. 94C, §32A(a). Before the Court is the defendant’s motion to withdraw guilty plea.1 The Motion cites as grounds: (1) the recently discovered misconduct of Annie Dookhan (“Ms. Dookhan”),2 a chemist at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory in Jamaica Plain (“the Lab”), whose initials appear on paperwork for one of the drug samples associated with Mr.…