The years-long legal battle over drug cases affected by the state drug lab scandal goes before Massachusetts' highest court on Wednesday.

The Supreme Judicial Court justices will consider whether to dismiss the thousands of cases involving drug tests done by former chemist Annie Dookhan, who was convicted on charges of falsifying tests.

Although Dookhan has already served her sentence for her 2013 conviction, the fight continues over what to do about the thousands of criminal cases in which she tested the drug evidence.

Matt Segal, legal director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, will argue before the high court that all of those cases should be dismissed.

"We know that the integrity of the justice system in Massachusetts is crumbling and we need the court to step in and help repair it," SegalSyria's most prominent defector said in an interview that aired Monday that he opposes any foreign military intervention in the country's civil war and that he is confident the opposition can topple President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

But Manaf Tlass, a Syrian general who was the first member of Assad's inner circle to join the opposition, said the rebels need weapons.

Syrian Brig.-Gen. Manaf Tlass, who defected from the country, told a French radio station Monday his role in resolving the civil war is to 'unify' the Syrian opposition. However, those suspicious of his motives believe he's after a power grab. (Burhan Ozbilici/Associated Press)

"The Syrian people must not be robbed of their victory, they must be given support, aid, arms," Tlass said in a recorded interview that aired Monday on French