The Delaware Supreme Court has turned back an effort to overturn 45 drug convictions after state drug-testing lab scandal.
The defendants from Sussex County all pleaded guilty to drug offenses before the revelations.
From 2010 to 2014 there were at least 55 piece of drug evidence from the office under the Delaware Medical Examiner’s office.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Chief Justice Leo Strine wrote that despite the scandal the high court would not overturn the decisions made by the defendants to plead guilty before the revelations came to public light.
He said that while the defendants might have been given more leverage in their plea deals if they had known about the scandal that possibility was not enough to overturn them.
