WGBH A 6-Point Plan For Resolving the 24,000 Tainted ‘Dookhan’ Drug Cases On Wednesday the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at long last will directly address the issue of how to settle the fate of roughly 24,000 “Dookhan defendants”—people whose criminal convictions are tainted by the actions of Annie Dookhan, the former state crime lab chemist who routinely tampered with evidence from 2003-2012.