Jones v. Han

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO DISMISS

SAYLOR, District Judge.

This is a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 arising out of the falsification of drug tests at the William F. Hinton Drug Laboratory in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, by chemist Annie Dookhan.

In 2010, plaintiff David Jones was convicted of distribution of crack cocaine and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of five years. His conviction was based in part on drug-analysis evidence produced by Dookhan at the Hinton Laboratory. He was released from custody, after more than two years of imprisonment, when it was discovered that…