Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal S3E91.0 Jamie Reports from the Middlesex County Superior Court, Calls To Throw out Every Case - RIGGEDLabs Podcast

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S3E91.0 Jamie Reports from the Middlesex County Superior Court, Calls To Throw out Every Case

In this episode, our host Jamie reports from the Middlesex County Superior Court, and calls to throw out remaining every case tied to the Massachusetts crime laboratories scandals.

You will also hear insights on Commonwealth v. Israel Cedeno-Martinez - a Massachusetts post-conviction legal proceeding tied to the Hinton State Laboratory Institute drug testing scandal and allegations of misconduct involving chemist Sonja Farak.

For six years, RIGGEDLabs Awareness Podcast stands strong with every patriot since 2020 to help building protective and defensive awareness against enemies or detractors who are dishonestly manipulating evidence in rigged forensic laboratories to deceive our justice system to take away people's freedom in this nation.

We remember and stand with several thousands of innocent victims and survivors in Massachusetts and a lot more across the nation who lost their freedom as a result of wrongful convictions. We stand with their families. Their case must be overturned!

Also, check out our previous episode in "Punching Up with Jamie" for a bombshell revelation about rigged school systems in the nation.

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Hosts Jamie Folk and Ilyas Rona take a deep dive into the case responsible for the greatest violation of constitutional rights in Massachusetts history

On September 28, 2012, Massachusetts state chemist Annie Dookhan was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice and falsification of academic records. Approximately four months later another chemist, Sonja Farak, was arrested for using the drugs she was supposed to be testing and the Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal was born.

Hosts Jamie Folk and Ilyas Rona will be exploring the William H Hinton, UMass Amherst and State Police crime labs associated with this scandal and speak with the lawyers whose clients rights were violated as a result of the fraud committed by the chemists in these labs. Through their investigation of this case, Folk and Rona have found that the crimes of Dookhan and Farak were just the tip of the iceberg and that multiple chemists from three state labs lied on the stand, knowingly sent people to jail for possessing drugs that were not illegal and wanted to help law enforcement send as many people to jail as possible.

Jamie Folk is an independent journal who has been investigating this case since Dookhan's arrest was first reported. He has obtained over 70k documents from the state and has interviewed several lawyers, journalists, politicians, law enforcement officials and others connected with the case over the past 7 years.

Ilyas Rona is a lawyer who represented a man sent to prison by Dookhan and another Hinton lab chemist for possessing what turned out to be a cashew for two years. He has been investigating the Hinton, Amherst and State Police labs ever since.

Season 3 begins the exploration of cases outside of Massachusetts in the hope of shining a light on other drug lab scandals throughout the country.

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James Folk

Jamie Folk has been researching and reporting on the Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal since 2013. He has worked in the biotech industry around Boston for the past 17 years in the Quality Assurance space. He was a volunteer with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections from 2010 to 2015 running the Alternatives to Violence (AVP) workshops for inmates and met many victims of these labs in prison.