Delaware Seeks To Overturn 9,500 Drug Convictions

On May 1, 2014, the Delaware Public Defender’s Office filed 112 motions to overturn drug convictions between 2010 and February 2014 after widespread tampering and thefts at the state's drug testing lab were revealed. Up to 9,500 convictions could be reversed, and more than 3,700 pending drug prosecutions in Delaware courts could be dismissed.

On February 21, 2014, the Delaware State Police Criminal Investigative Unit and the Delaware Attorney General’s Office announced they had initiated a joint investigation over the course of the last month, after the discovery that drug evidence submitted for analysis to . . .