Annie Dookhan Case Study
Annie Dookhan
Annie Dookhan was at the center of a controversial case of faked and altered drug samples in a Massachusetts State Crime Lab. She was born in 1977 on the western part of the island of Trinidad in the city of San Fernando. Annie was only a child when her parents moved to the United States of America bringing her along, where she eventually became a citizen(Jacobs, 2013). Dookhan was first working at a vaccine manufacturer in Boston for almost two years. At the time, she was always early to work and left after everyone, even her boss, had left. She was always willing to do overtime hours and got results in much less time than her coworkers. According to the Boston Globe, she was smart and was also working on her master degree …show more content…
She admitted that she had “dry labbed” where she only tested a few samples in a whole batch of samples and had mixed drug samples. Judge Carol S. Ball, gave Dookhan a three to five year sentence in the Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston. The state representative Bradley H. Jones said that the three to five years was not adequate as the prosecutors had asked for five to seven years. The objection was in light to the ongoing complications that Dookhan’s misconduct was causing (Geller, …show more content…
Although Dookhan was wrong in practicing the way she did, it can be seen that the court released people that were not worthy of being freed. Ethics are a set of guiding principles as to what ought to be done, and clearly Hood was not an ethical person for allegedly killing another man. As this shows he has no moral standards and did not follow the universal moral standard of the Ten Commandments, in which there is a commandment which states that thou shall not kill. Should we blame Dookhan’s malpractice that landed Hood in jail? Or should we hold Hood accountable for his own unethical behavior? Ethics also seeks the ideas of good and bad as they apply to human affairs. In the case of Annie Dookhan it can be seen that she did have some good in her when this case came out to light. In one of her statements to state troopers at her home, she said that she had messed up, and messed up pretty bad. She didn’t want the lab to suffer because of her; it was not the laboratory’s fault she said, I don’t want the lab to get in trouble she added, because she admitted that it was her fault and that she acted alone (Ballou & Estes,
Annie Dookhan was at the center of a controversial case of faked and altered drug samples in a Massachusetts State Crime Lab. She was born in 1977 on the western part of the island of Trinidad in the city of San Fernando. Annie was only a child when her parents moved to the United States of America bringing her along, where she eventually became a citizen(Jacobs, 2013). Dookhan was first working at a vaccine manufacturer in Boston for almost two years. At the time, she was always early to work and left after everyone, even her boss, had left. She was always willing to do overtime hours and got results in much less time than her coworkers. According to the Boston Globe, she was smart and was also working on her master degree …show more content…
She admitted that she had “dry labbed” where she only tested a few samples in a whole batch of samples and had mixed drug samples. Judge Carol S. Ball, gave Dookhan a three to five year sentence in the Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston. The state representative Bradley H. Jones said that the three to five years was not adequate as the prosecutors had asked for five to seven years. The objection was in light to the ongoing complications that Dookhan’s misconduct was causing (Geller, …show more content…
Although Dookhan was wrong in practicing the way she did, it can be seen that the court released people that were not worthy of being freed. Ethics are a set of guiding principles as to what ought to be done, and clearly Hood was not an ethical person for allegedly killing another man. As this shows he has no moral standards and did not follow the universal moral standard of the Ten Commandments, in which there is a commandment which states that thou shall not kill. Should we blame Dookhan’s malpractice that landed Hood in jail? Or should we hold Hood accountable for his own unethical behavior? Ethics also seeks the ideas of good and bad as they apply to human affairs. In the case of Annie Dookhan it can be seen that she did have some good in her when this case came out to light. In one of her statements to state troopers at her home, she said that she had messed up, and messed up pretty bad. She didn’t want the lab to suffer because of her; it was not the laboratory’s fault she said, I don’t want the lab to get in trouble she added, because she admitted that it was her fault and that she acted alone (Ballou & Estes,