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Suffolk DA kicks off effort to drop tens of thousands of convictions tied to tainted state drug lab By Maggie Mulvihill Globe correspondent,Updated April 29, 2021, 6:24 p.m. Email to a Friend The state shut down the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Jamaica Plain in 2012.The Boston Globe/Boston Globe Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins launched a historic effort Thursday to overturn charges in tens of thousands of criminal cases built on drug evidence she says were tainted by rampant mismanagement and misconduct at a now-shuttered state drug lab. Defense attorneys, academics, and staffers from across the criminal justice system gathered in a virtual meeting for Rollins’s inaugural “Hinton Lab Initiative” summit, embarking on a massive, yearlong attempt to remedy convictions tied to the largest drug lab scandal in US history.

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