True crime podcast Serial(opens in a brand new tab) podcast has launched a brand new episode(opens in a brand new tab) after a choose overturned the homicide conviction of Adnan Syed, the topic of the famed podcast collection.
The podcast, from the creators of This American Life, first aired eight years in the past and shortly grew to become a sensation. The 12-episode arc of the primary season(opens in a brand new tab) examined a case from 1999, when Syed, then a Baltimore highschool senior, was convicted(opens in a brand new tab) of the homicide of fellow pupil Hae Min Lee.
Serial host Sarah Koenig was on the bottom in Baltimore on Monday(opens in a brand new tab), the place Choose Melissa M. Phinn of Baltimore Metropolis Circuit Courtroom vacated the conviction. Prosecutors(opens in a brand new tab) (State’s Legal professional Marilyn Mosby and Sentencing Evaluate Unit chief Becky Feldman) had filed a movement for the choose to overturn it(opens in a brand new tab) final Wednesday. After a year-long investigation, Feldman and Syed’s protection group (led by Erica J. Suter of the Workplace of the Public Defender and the College of Baltimore’s Innocence Venture), discovered proof pointing to “various suspects.”
Adnan Syed of NPR’s ‘Serial’ has authentic homicide conviction overturned
In accordance with the New York Occasions, Phinn declared prosecutors had failed at hand over present proof and had discovered new proof that might have affected the end result of Syed’s trial. Prosecutors stated, “The state now not has confidence within the integrity of the conviction.” They now reportedly have 30 days to determine to proceed with a brand new trial or not.
The much-awaited reversal of his conviction comes after Syed spent 23 years in jail — serving a life sentence — for a criminal offense he stated he didn’t commit.
The Innocence Venture, a corporation working to forestall wrongful convictions, welcomed the information in a press release(opens in a brand new tab), writing, “The integrity of the authorized system requires accountability for not solely Mr. Syed’s wrongful conviction but in addition the ache the State’s illegal conduct brought about to Hae Min Lee’s household.”
The most recent episode(opens in a brand new tab), operating at round 16 minutes, options recordings from inside and out of doors the courtroom, together with countless cheers from Syed’s supporters. Koenig experiences from the scene, additionally explaining the authorized historical past of the conviction, the state’s movement, and Syed’s journey.
“I do know that the probabilities of the State ever making an attempt to prosecute Adnan once more are distant at greatest.”
“Adnan’s case was a large number. Is a large number. That’s just about the place we have been once we stopped reporting in 2014,” says Keonig within the episode.
“Baltimore Metropolis Police have advised the prosecutor’s workplace they’re going to place somebody again on the case. Somebody will attempt to speak to the 2 suspects Becky [Feldman] recognized within the movement. I’ve zero predictions about what would come of that. However I do know that the probabilities of the State ever making an attempt to prosecute Adnan once more are distant at greatest.”
Serial‘s new episode is now streaming Apple Podcasts(opens in a brand new tab), Google Podcasts(opens in a brand new tab), Spotify(opens in a brand new tab), Pandora or wherever you hearken to podcasts.(opens in a brand new tab)