On Thursday,
September 20, 2012, Governor
Deval Patrick announced the selection of attorney David E. Meier to
lead the central office set up to oversee the review of criminal cases
potentially affected by mishandling of evidence at the state drug lab. David was
formerly the Chief of Homicide in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office
and is now a partner at BBA
Sponsor Firm Todd & Weld
LLP.
David has been
an active member of the Boston Bar Association’s Criminal Law Section and in
2008, he was appointed by then BBA President Kathy Weinman to be co-chair of
a task force charged with studying and making recommendation to prevent
wrongful convictions. In December 2009, the task force released its report, Getting
it Right: Improving the Accuracy and Reliability of the Criminal Justice
System. David’s leadership and the work of the task force were
instrumental in the passage of legislation
earlier this year that provides post-conviction access to DNA
evidence in Massachusetts.