Prosecutors have filed a movement to vacate the homicide conviction of 42-year-old Adnan Syed, a case that beforehand gained worldwide consideration after it was featured on the podcast Serial.
In a movement filed by the Baltimore state’s lawyer Marilyn Mosby, an almost year-long investigation with Syed’s protection staff revealed new info that factors to different suspects, in accordance with a press release from her workplace.
The choice suspects have been recognized to police on the time of the investigation, however weren't correctly dominated out, stated prosecutors. The investigation, performed with Syed’s protection staff, additionally uncovered that unreliable cellphone tower knowledge was used within the case.
Syed’s case caught the general public consideration after Serial featured the story of the loss of life of Hae Min Lee, Syed’s then girlfriend. In 2000, a then 17-year-old Syed was convicted of strangling Lee and sentenced to life in jail, plus 30 years.
Syed has maintained his innocence over time, along with his protection staff making a number of makes an attempt to get his case reviewed once more. In 2016, Syed’s conviction was vacated and a brand new trial reordered, however that call was in the end overturned by the Maryland court docket of appeals in 2019.
Now, Syed has an opportunity for a retrial once more.
An announcement from Mosby’s workplace learn: “To be clear, the state is just not asserting, at the moment, that Mr Syed is harmless. Whereas the investigation stays ongoing, when contemplating the totality of the circumstances, the state lacks confidence within the integrity of the conviction and requests that Mr Syed be afforded a brand new trial.”
Vital to securing Syed’s potential retrial was the passing of the Juvenile Restoration Act of 2021, “which permits individuals convicted of crimes as juveniles to request a modification of sentence after they've served at the very least 20 years in jail”.
Syed was charged as an grownup, regardless of being a young person on the time of Lee’s loss of life. He's at the moment serving his twentieth 12 months in jail since he was arrested.
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