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BRIDGEMAN v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE SUFFOLK DISTRICT

SJC-12157.

476 Mass. 298 (2017)

KEVIN BRIDGEMAN & others v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE SUFFOLK DISTRICT & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 18, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew R. Segal ( Daniel N. Marx , Adriana LaFaille , & Carlton E. Williams also present) for the petitioners.

Benjamin H. Keehn , Committee for Public Counsel Services ( Nancy J. Caplan & Eric Brandt , Committee for Public Counsel Services, also present) for Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Quentin R. Weld , Assistant District Attorney, for District Attorney for the Essex District.

Susanne M. O'Neil , Assistant District Attorney, for District Attorney for the Norfolk District.

Vincent J. DeMore , Assistant District Attorney, for District Attorney for the Suffolk District.

The following were present but did not argue:

Robert J. Bender & Hallie White Speight , Assistant District Attorneys, for District Attorney for the Middlesex District.

Gail M. McKenna , Assistant District Attorney, for District Attorney for the Plymouth District.

Brian S. Glenny , Assistant District Attorney, for District Attorney for the Cape & Islands District.

Aaron M. Katz , for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Joseph S. Dowdy & Christine C. Mumma , of North Carolina, John Roddy , & Denise McWilliams for New England Innocence Project & another.

Janet Moore , of Ohio, & Patricia A. DeJuneas for National Association for Public Defense.

Anthony A. Scibelli & Elizabeth A. Ritvo for Boston Bar Association.

Daniel K. Gelb , Chauncy B. Wood , Naveen Ganesh , & Peter Walkingshaw for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & another.

Present: GANTS, C.J., BOTSFORD, LENK, HINES, GAZIANO, LOWY, & BUDD, JJ.

We once again confront the tragic legacy of the misconduct of Annie Dookhan when she was employed as a chemist at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute (Hinton lab). In Bridgeman v. District Attorney for the Suffolk Dist., 471 Mass. 465<...

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