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The podcast that shined mild on Adnan Syed’s case was there Monday when he was launched to dwelling detention.
“Serial” explored Syed’s conviction for the homicide of his highschool girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Choose Melissa Phinn of the Baltimore Metropolis Circuit Courtroom vacated his 1999 conviction on Monday.
In 2014, “Serial,” which is hosted by journalist Sarah Koenig, helped propel curiosity in podcasts and Syed’s specific case.
“Serial” explored Syed’s conviction for the homicide of his highschool girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Choose Melissa Phinn of the Baltimore Metropolis Circuit Courtroom vacated his 1999 conviction on Monday.
In 2014, “Serial,” which was hosted by journalist Sarah Koenig, helped set off each an curiosity in podcasts and Syed’s specific case.
A brand new episode of “Serial” launched Tuesday runs for about 17 minute and options Koenig explaining how Syed got here to be launched.
“In keeping with the prosecutor’s workplace, they didn’t got down to choose aside Adnan’s case – their very own case thoughts you,” Koenig says within the new episode. “They are saying it simply sort of crumbled as soon as they took a tough look.”
Syed had been serving a life sentence for first-degree homicide, theft, kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Materials within the state investigation that was not correctly turned over to Syed’s protection attorneys, and the existence of two suspects who might have been improperly cleared as a part of the investigation, had been cited as the explanations for the conviction being vacated.
“Adnan’s case was a multitude – is a multitude. That’s just about the place we had been after we stopped reporting in 2014,” Koenig says in podcast. “Baltimore Metropolis Police have informed the prosecutor’s workplace they’re gonna put somebody again on the case. Somebody will attempt to discuss to the 2 suspects Becky [Feldman, chief of the state’s attorney’s office sentencing review unit] recognized within the movement. I’ve zero predictions about what might come of that. However I do know that the possibilities of the state ever attempting to prosecute Adnan once more are distant at greatest.”
Prosecutors have 30 days to resolve whether or not to pursue a brand new trial towards Syed.
