The four-part docuseries revolves around Amherst, Massachusetts, drug lab chemist Sonja Farak who became addicted to the narcotics she was supposed to be testing. In covering her tracks, Farak falsified thousands of results and opened the door to overturning hundreds of wrongful convictions.
4 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
2020
Rating
6.9/10
32 votes • HD
People
Self - Deffense Attorney
Sonja Farak
Self - Journalist, Boston Globe
Self - Investigative Reporter
Self - Journalist, Rolling Stone
Lawyer
Self - Defense Attorney
Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)
Self - Forensic Drug Chemist
Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)
Self - Sonja's Mother
Episodes
Episode 1 • Apr 01, 2020
Damning evidence reveals drug lab chemist Sonja Farak's addictions. A scandal erupts, raising questions for the thousands of defendants in her cases.
Episode 2 • Apr 01, 2020
Top state lab chemist Annie Dookhan falls from grace over brazen misconduct and unsettling emails with prosecutors. Farak's trial begins.
Episode 3 • Apr 01, 2020
Farak's disturbing confessions lay bare a broken system. Dookhan takes the fall in court, but suspicions of a high-level cover-up grow louder.
Episode 4 • Apr 01, 2020
The ACLU and dogged defense lawyers fight for justice in the tainted cases as officials and the public absorb the fallout's staggering scale.
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