“Serial” explored Syed’s conviction for the homicide of his highschool girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Decide 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 explicit case.
“Serial” explored Syed’s conviction for the homicide of his highschool girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Decide 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 explicit case. Season 1, comprised of 12 episodes, set podcast information on the time of its launch with greater than 300 million downloads, in accordance with producers of this system.
It stays regularly cited as one of the crucial common podcasts on this planet and was No. 1 on Apple’s podcast chart on Tuesday, the identical day a brand new episode launched wherein Koenig explains how Syed’s launch took place.
“In line with the prosecutor’s workplace, they did not 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 type 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 could 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 is just about the place we had been after we stopped reporting in 2014,” Koenig says in podcast. “Baltimore Metropolis Police have instructed 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 probabilities of the state ever making an attempt to prosecute Adnan once more are distant at finest.”
Prosecutors have 30 days to resolve whether or not to pursue a brand new trial in opposition to Syed.