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Brickbats

Brickbat: Testing Our Patience

Charles Oliver | 5.3.2018 4:00 AM

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A Massachusetts judge has dismissed almost 12,000 convictions in cases handled by Sonja Farak, a technician in a state drug crime lab. Farak pleaded guilty to evidence tampering and drug possession after being arrested for stealing samples from the lab.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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