On November 13, 2020, Attorney Wood and a team from Foley Hoag including Attorney Christopher Hart filed an amicus brief on behalf of MACDL urging the SJC to hold that defendants who were jailed but whose convictions were invalid should be allowed to ask judges to credit that time in jail against another conviction. This is particularly true for defendants convicted in the infamous Massachusetts drug lab scandals. The principle is simple: the government took more of someone’s life than it was entitled to, that should count for something if the person is validly punished later.