Commonwealth v. Torres
Annotate this CaseIn 2008, Defendant pleaded guilty to distribution of a class B substance and was sentenced to serve one year in a house of correction. In 2013, because of the problems that arose at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory and Annie Dookhan in particular, Defendant filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea and for a new trial. The district court denied the motion. The Supreme Judicial Court subsequently decided Commonwealth v. Scott, in which the Court considered the effect of Dookhan’s misconduct on a defendant’s motion to withdraw a guilty plea on the basis of that misconduct. The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the order denying Defendant’s motion and remanded for further consideration in accordance with Scott and this decision, holding that Defendant was entitled to an opportunity to demonstrate egregious government misconduct in his case.
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