BOSTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Eleven more inmates have been freed in Massachusetts as a result of an ongoing scandal over testing in the state's drug lab.
Prosecutors agreed, during a series of court hearings Tuesday in Boston, that the prisoners' trials could have been tainted, the Boston Herald reported. Annie Dookhan, who tested 60,000 samples involving 34,000 defendants during her nine-year tenure at the lab, has been charged with obstruction of justice.
John Wood, a lawyer for one of the released inmates, said his client had pleaded guilty. The client was freed on his own recognizance Tuesday, but Wood said he still faces a major legal hurdle, getting his plea overturned.
"I've never seen anything like it," Wood said of the scandal. "I've been doing this for 40 years."
