![]() Their conduct constitutes a fraud upon the court.” The Superior Court found that the two assistant attorney generals working on the case engaged in misconduct that “improperly influenced and distorted fact finding and legal conclusions and it unfairly hampered the defendants’ presentation of defenses. ![]() In 2016, a six-day evidentiary hearing was held to explore why that evidence was withheld. At that point, the defense counsel tried to obtain important evidence from the Commonwealth, but the attorney general’s office suppressed that evidence and falsely told counsel and the court that all exculpatory evidence had already been disclosed. The attorneys outline that when Farak was arrested in 2013-after she compromised the evidence in thousands of criminal drug cases-the Superior Court held an evidentiary hearing. The document-filed by the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the ACLU of Massachusetts, and attorneys Daniel Marx and William Fick-states that the Superior Court found that the attorney general’s office “purposefully withheld exculpatory evidence about the timing and scope of Farak’s drug abuse, misled defense counsel about that evidence, and committed a fraud on the court in order to minimize the scope of the scandal.” Today, lawyers have filed a position stating the remainder of the convictions linked to Farak-estimated to be in the thousands-need to also be dismissed with prejudice to “restore integrity to the justice system.” In June, an initial group of the drug convictions secured through Farak’s testing were dismissed based on documentation that she’d tampered with evidence and that prosecutors knowingly concealed information from the defense counsel as well as the Superior Court about the extent and length of Farak’s misconduct and drug abuse. ![]() In 2014, former Amherst drug lab chemist Sonja Farak was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison after it was discovered that for nearly a decade she stole and used drugs that she was testing.
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