Episode 4: Commonwealth V. Sutton

In a landmark decision in the ongoing Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal, Attorney Jim McKenna obtained a internal Inspector General email that undermined the Inspector General's assertion that Annie Dookhan's drug testing numbers were higher than other chemists. The email names seven chemists that tested at a consistently higher rate than Dookhan for six months or greater. It also indicates that the DPH's statistics for chemists sampling were not to be trusted. These statistics and emails were sent by an independent audit group brought in to investigate the Hinton Lab after Dookhan's arrest.