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Stinky The Clown

(67,673 posts)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 05:18 PM Jun 2016

Conviction vacated, new trial granted for Adnan Syed of "Serial"

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-adnan-syed-new-trial-20160630-story.html

A Baltimore judge has vacated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular "Serial" podcast that explored his case, and granted his request for a new trial.

The order from retired Judge Martin Welch was handed down in an order Thursday afternoon. Syed has been serving a life sentence since being convicted in 2000 of killing ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a Woodlawn High School classmate, and burying her body in Leakin Park.

Welch wrote in his opinion that Syed's trial attorney "rendered ineffective assistance when she failed to cross-examine the state's expert regarding the reliability of cell tower location evidence."

Syed's attorney, C. Justin Brown, broke word of the judge's ruling on Twitter. "WE WON A NEW TRIAL FOR ADNAN SYED! #FreeAdnan," he wrote.

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Conviction vacated, new trial granted for Adnan Syed of "Serial" (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Jun 2016 OP
It will be interesting to see how this works out; I have to say it's frustrating to think of the Brickbat Jun 2016 #1
If the State loses its appeal, expect some kind of Alford plea with time served alcibiades_mystery Jun 2016 #2

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)
1. It will be interesting to see how this works out; I have to say it's frustrating to think of the
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 05:22 PM
Jun 2016

number of similar cases that must be out there but that don't get the attention from bored white liberals like me.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
2. If the State loses its appeal, expect some kind of Alford plea with time served
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 05:50 PM
Jun 2016

This was probably a first degree manslaughter anyway, so the time served hits where he would have been had he pleaded out initially.

There's no way they're going to get Jay Wilds to testify again, and without his testimony, and with any other lawyer on the cell tower cross, he walks on a full acquittal. Prosecutors will take a first degree manslaughter plea and Sayed will call it an Alford plea like the West Memphis Three to get out of prison.

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