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David Danielli

 

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

2-1-2 yrs

Years Imprisoned:

1.5

Year Crime:

2011

Year Convicted:

2011

Year Cleared:

2012

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Massachusetts

County or Region of Crime:

Norfolk

City of Crime:

Quincy

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"David Danielli was convicted in 2011 of possessing oxycodone tablets when he was stopped by Quincy, Massachusetts police in March 2011. A lab test determined the tablets in his possession were oxycodone, and facing the testimony of the state's expert at trial and a state mandatory minimum sentence of nine years in prison, Danielli pled guilty in exchange for a two-and-a-half-year sentence in county jail. In February 2012 the orfolk County District Attorney's Office was notified that the state crime lab chemist, Annie Dookhan, who allegedly conducted the test of the pills, was in fact suspended from her duties at the time of the alleged test on July 1, 2011. It was later discovered that Dookhan may have tained as many as 60,000 samples she tested for drugs. Based on the new evidence Danielli filed a motion that was unopposed by the DA's Office. Norfolk County Judge Paul Troy granted the motion, ruling that because of the tainted testing by Dookhan, the guilty plea by Danielli was neither knowing nor voluntary and vacated the conviction. The charges were dismissed and Danielli was released. Danielli was the first of scores of defendants who had their convictions vacated because Dookhan was the crime lab technician involved in analyzing the evidence. On November 22, 2013 Dookhan pled guilty to guilty to 27 counts of misleading investigators, filing false reports, and tampering with evidence. The 36-year-old Dookhan was sentenced to 3 to 5 years in prison to be followed by two years of probation.. "

Conviction Caused By:

"Tainted or non-existent drug analysis by state crime lab chemist, Annie Dookhan."

Innocence Proved By:

"Based on the new evidence Danielli filed a motion that was unopposed by the DA's Office. Norfolk County Judge Paul Troy granted the motion, ruling that because of the tainted testing by Dookhan, the guilty plea by Danielli was neither knowing nor voluntary and vacated the conviction. The charges were dismissed and Danielli was released."

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Male

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Information Source 1:

"First Drug Conviction Vacated In Wake Of Drug Lab Scandal, By David Boeri (staff), Wbur.org, September 20, 2012"

Information Location 1:

http://www.wbur.org/2012/09/20/david-danielli-released

Information Source 2:

"Annie Dookhan pleads guilty in drug lab scandal, By Milton J. Valencia and John R. Ellement (staff), The Boston Globe, November 22, 2013"

Information Location 2:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/22/annie-dookhan-former-state-chemist-who-mishandled-drug-evidence-agrees-plead-guilty/7UU3hfZUof4DFJGoNUfXGO/story.html

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