State officials have agreed as many as 40,000 defendants are entitled to be reimbursed after their convictions were vacated, the bulk in 2017 and 2018, by the Supreme Judicial Court due to rampant misconduct at two state labs that tested evidence for their cases.
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Wrongfully convicted drug defendants await possible $10M payback
More than 1,200 New Bedford cases, and nearly 3,700 for all of Bristol County, could result in refunds as part of a class action suit filed in 2019 after the Supreme Judicial Court had vacated many convictions.