THE STATE Board of Bar Overseers on Monday began a two-week hearing to decide whether to recommend disciplinary action against three attorneys who worked for former attorney general Martha Coakley, who are accused of withholding evidence in the case of rogue drug lab chemist Sonja Farak. Assistant Bar Counsel Stacey Best, whose office oversees complaints against lawyers and is arguing […]
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The cost of the drug war
Someday soon, perhaps even today, Supreme Court Justice Frank Graziano will sign an order dismissing charges against about 8,000 drug defendants whose cases were caught up in the misconduct by state chemist Sonja Farak. That, however, will not close the books on the latest state lab scandal because the SJC is also set to hear an […]