Judge sees misconduct, Attorney General sees none
Who’s telling the truth — Attorney General Maura Healey or Superior Court Judge Richard J. Carey?
The Democrat AG says there is “no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct by attorneys in the AG’s office.”
But after months of hearings, the judge last week ruled that two assistant AG’s engaged in “intentional, repeated, prolonged and deceptive withholding of evidence from defendants, the court and local prosecutors ... (conduct that was) egregious and harmful to the administration of justice.”
This is the scandal of Sonja Farak, the former state chemist who from 2004 to 2013 continuously worked under the influence of drugs, including heroin and LSD, at the state labs in Jamaica Plain and Amherst, handling tens of thousands of criminal drug analyses and HIV tests.
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