Man at centre of Serial podcast faces retrial after more than 20 years in prison

Prosecutors have filed a movement to vacate Adnan Syed’s conviction for a homicide in 1999 (Image: Reuters)

A person who has spent over 20 years in jail for homicide may face a retrial after new data got here ahead.

Prosecutors wish to overturn the sentence handed all the way down to Adnan Syed when he was convicted in 2000 over the demise of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee the 12 months earlier than.

Maryland State’s Legal professional Marilyn Mosby mentioned: ‘The movement filed at this time helps a brand new trial for Syed primarily based on a virtually year-long investigation that exposed undisclosed and newly-developed data relating to two various suspects, in addition to unreliable cellular phone tower information.’

Syed, who was 17 on the time, was charged after Hae’s physique was discovered partially buried in a park in Baltimore.

Fourteen years after his conviction, Syed’s case turned the main target of the primary season of Serial’ a podcast hosted by investigative journalist Sarah Koenig.

The podcast proved to be an enormous hit with tens of hundreds of thousands of downloads, and Syed’s case was thrust into the highlight once more.

It additionally prompted a follow-up investigation by the State’s Legal professional’s Workplace, which discovered that the prosecution did not notify Syed’s protection attorneys that police had interviewed two different suspects for Lee’s homicide, and that neither suspect was ever formally dominated out.

Hae Min Lee’s physique was present in a park in Baltimore in 1999

Adnan Syed, pictured across the time of Hae Him Lee’s demise, has spent over 20 years in jail

In accordance with the submitting, one of many suspects additionally threatened Lee earlier than her demise, saying ‘he would make her disappear. He would kill her.’

By withholding this data, the state might have violated the Brady rule – a Supreme Courtroom precedent which requires prosecutors to show over any proof that could be favorable to a defendant.

Prosecutors didn't declare that Syed was harmless, however that he required a brand new trial ‘the place he's adequately represented and the most recent proof could be offered.’

The State’s Legal professional really useful that Syed be launched on his personal recognizance or on bail.

‘We imagine that protecting Mr. Syed detained as we proceed to research the case with every part that we all know now, once we would not have confidence in outcomes of the primary trial, could be unjust,’ Mosby acknowledged.

Syed has maintained his innocence since he was first arrested.

Maryland State Legal professional Marilyn Mosby mentioned that ‘Syed deserves a brand new trial the place he's adequately represented and the most recent proof could be offered’ (Image: AP)

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