Eight years since disgraced chemist Sonja Farak was arrested for tampering with evidence at a Massachusetts drug lab, the effects of her actions are still unfolding. More than 24,000 convictions have been overturned as a result of her case. And now, three state prosecutors who investigated Farak are under investigation themselves by the state’s Board of Bar Overseers for their early handling of evidence. The latter investigation was the result of a complaint filed by Nina Morrison, senior litigation counsel for the Innocence Project. As she put it in a piece for Commonwealth Magazine, the Farak case “involved a rare one-two punch of official misconduct.” She joined Jim Braude to discuss.
