WGBH How To Repair Mass Injustice The Supreme Judicial Court recently heard oral arguments concerning how the Commonwealth should handle the cases affected by the misdeeds of Annie Dookhan, the former state crime lab chemist who engaged in a pattern of tampering with evidence. The joint efforts of prosecutors, the ACLU of Massachusetts, and others have established more than 24,000 cases […]
Seeding research to solve intractable social problems Margaret Burnham, a law professor at Northeastern University and the first female, African American judge in Massachusetts, is completing an archive of 400 unsolved murder cases from the South, dating from 1930 to 1970, thought to have been racially motivated. In addition to providing a sense of closure for the families and communities, the archival […]