#245: How To Fix A Drug Scandal, Part 1

Real Crime Profile

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Laura Richards, Jim Clemente and Lisa Zambetti are joined by director, producer and writer Erin Lee Carr and criminal defence attorney Luke Ryan as we deep dive the Netflix show How to Fix a Drug Scandal.

Erin's four-part docuseries How to Fix a Drug Scandal was released on Netflix on April 1st. The series was among the top ten most watched shows on the platform during the first week of air.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.0	At the Strug Labs, a single chemist can do thousands of cases a year. It wasn't really clear the extent to which things had gone wrong.
0:14.0	She didn't realize how many people it would hurt.
0:16.0	And it turns out it's not just one but two chemists.
0:19.0	This was one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the history of Massachusetts.
0:24.0	All these convictions needed to be wiped away.
0:27.0	We are investigating somebody who's tampered with evidence. The scope of this could be very large.
0:32.0	It's amazing the ripple effect of a single person's act.
0:37.0	These allegations do not implicate any system-wide practices.
0:42.0	How do you come out and make a statement that no one's been wrongfully convicted?
0:46.0	How do you know?
0:47.0	You just assume they're doing their job unless you're told otherwise.
0:50.0	This isn't just a scandal about bad science. It is a scandal about bad law.
0:57.0	Where are you working now, Sonja?
1:07.0	I'm working for the Strug Labs.
1:10.0	The Strug Labs in Amherst.
1:12.0	And so what exactly are your duties at the lab here in Amherst?
1:16.0	Mostly to perform chemical analysis of suspected narcotics.
1:21.0	I also help maintain some instrumentation, do quality control,
1:26.0	testifying work.
1:29.0	Would that be a fair representation of where you work?
1:32.0	Yes. Is that your section?
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