Legal Opinion
Committee for Public Counsel Services v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 11, 2018No. SJC 12471PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGaziano, J.
**701 We are called upon, in the exercise of our broad powers of superintendence over the courts of the Commonwealth, to remedy egregious governmental misconduct arising out of the scandal at the State Laboratory Institute in Amherst at the campus of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst lab or lab). The misconduct at issue involves evidence tampering by a chemist, Sonja Farak, who stole drugs submitted to the lab for testing for her own use, consumed drug "standards" that are required for testing, and manipulated evidence and the lab's computer system to conceal her actions. The…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Commonwealth v. TucceriMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. EllisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. CronkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
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3Cited by18 opinions
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- Libby v. DuvalCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1994
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- Commonwealth v. Martinez Commonwealth v. GreenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2018
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