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COMMONWEALTH v. TORRES

SJC-11466

467 Mass. 1007 (2014)

COMMONWEALTH v. RENE TORRES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

March 5, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Dana Alan Curhan for the defendant.

Emma A. Andersson & Ezekiel R. Edwards , of New York; Emily A. Cardy & Eric Brandt , Committee for Public Counsel Services; & Matthew R. Segal & Elizabeth A. Lunt , for Committee for Public Counsel Services & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

RESCRIPT.

This case is remarkably similar to Commonwealth v. Scott, ante 336 (2014), also decided today. The Commonwealth appeals a grant of the defendant's motion to vacate his guilty plea under Mass. R. Crim. P. 30(b), as appearing in 435 Mass. 1501 (2001), in a case arising out of the revelation of the wrongdoing of Annie Dookhan, a chemist at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute's forensic drug laboratory (Hinton drug lab) from 2003 to 2012...

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