Annie Dookhan [SEP] place of birth
Annie Dookhan
Annie Dookhan (born 1977) is a convicted felon who formerly worked as a chemist at Massachusetts crime lab and admitted to falsifying evidence, affecting up to 34,000 cases.
Biography.
Annie Dookhan was born Annie Sadiyya Khan in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago in 1977. She moved to the United States when she was a child and eventually became a citizen. In 2003, she was hired as a chemist at the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. She married Surrendranath Dookhan
ACLUM urging dismissal of all 40,000+ criminal cases tainted by falsification of evidence by Annie Dookhan.
- 2013-2014 - Investigations of the Ibragim Todashev killing by the Boston FBI in May, 2013
- 2014 - Response to end shackling of pregnant women prisoners while giving birth
- 2014 - "Commonwealth v. Augustine" (Mass. S.J.C. Feb. 18, 2014) - ACLUM along with the National ACLU litigated a case requiring that a warrant be required when state or local police track Massachusetts resident cell phones. The case applied