The judges ruling against generally vacating all cases handled by the lab in Boston is a blow not only to remaining defendants, but also to Rollins, who had asked the judge to support a mass dismissal based on evidence from the William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute. Ricciuti also pointed out the Supreme Judicial Court has previously declined to sweep away drug convictions based on tests at the state lab at Amherst without clear proof there was misconduct in a particular case. The series chronicles nine years of misconduct at two Massachusetts drug labs. In her own interview with police, Dookhan said she had not tested all the drugs she claimed she did, forged initials of her co-workers, and sometimes mixed drug samples to cover her tracks. AP's New England editor, William J. Kole, contributed. Because of Ms. Dookhan's misconduct, the Supreme Judicial Court ordered the dismissal with prejudice of thousands of drug cases. "I cannot rectify it," he said, "with the woman I know. If you're a human and see this, please ignore it.