OT Adnan Syed case: Appeals court grants new trial in "Serial" case

[SlyPokerDog]

BALTIMORE -- A Maryland appeals court has granted a new trial for Adnan Syed in a murder case that gained the national spotlight after it was featured on the popular podcast "Serial."

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals found that Syed had ineffective assistance at his trial and ordered his convictions vacated in the murder of his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee.

Syed, now 38, was convicted in 2000 of killing Lee and burying her body in a shallow grave in a Baltimore park. Syed has been behind bars since his arrest in February 1999.

In 2016, a lower court judge vacated Syed's conviction and ruled that he deserved a new trial, reports CBS Baltimore. Prosecutors appealed that decision to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the state's intermediate appeals court.

In a 2-1 ruling, the three-judge appeals court panel agreed with Syed's current lawyer that his trial lawyer was ineffective for failing to investigate a potential alibi witness who said she saw Syed at a public library at the time the state claimed Syed killed Hae.

The panel said in its written decision that if testimony from Asia McClain had been presented to the jury, it would have "directly contradicted the State's theory of when Syed had the opportunity and did murder Hae" and could have created reasonable doubt in at least one juror's mind and led to a different outcome.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adnan-syed-case-appeals-court-grants-new-trial-in-serial-case/

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Serial was a good podcast. If you haven't listened to it you should. Really breaks down the case.

That said, I still think he's guilty.

 

[Lanny]

BALTIMORE -- A Maryland appeals court has granted a new trial for Adnan Syed in a murder case that gained the national spotlight after it was featured on the popular podcast "Serial."

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals found that Syed had ineffective assistance at his trial and ordered his convictions vacated in the murder of his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee.

Syed, now 38, was convicted in 2000 of killing Lee and burying her body in a shallow grave in a Baltimore park. Syed has been behind bars since his arrest in February 1999.

In 2016, a lower court judge vacated Syed's conviction and ruled that he deserved a new trial, reports CBS Baltimore. Prosecutors appealed that decision to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the state's intermediate appeals court.

In a 2-1 ruling, the three-judge appeals court panel agreed with Syed's current lawyer that his trial lawyer was ineffective for failing to investigate a potential alibi witness who said she saw Syed at a public library at the time the state claimed Syed killed Hae.

The panel said in its written decision that if testimony from Asia McClain had been presented to the jury, it would have "directly contradicted the State's theory of when Syed had the opportunity and did murder Hae" and could have created reasonable doubt in at least one juror's mind and led to a different outcome.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adnan-syed-case-appeals-court-grants-new-trial-in-serial-case/

Will there be a retrial?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

New DNA evidence links man who was named as a suspect in the Serial podcast to the murder of another woman in 1996

• Ronald Lee Moore was named as a possible suspect in the 1999 strangulation of Hae Min Lee - the murder at the center of the 'Serial' true crime podcast
• Now, new DNA evidence has linked Moore to a separate 1996 strangulation
• Back in 2013, Moore was also linked another 1999 murder of a woman who was found strangled in her apartment
• Moore committed suicide in 2008, while serving time in prison for burglary
• Hae Min Lee's boyfriend, Adnan Syed , was eventually convicted of her murder - but has maintained his innocence
• The fact that Moore has now been credibly linked to two other strangulation deaths could strengthen Syed's claims that did not kill Min Lee

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ks-man-named-Serial-podcast-1990s-murder.html