{"id":1660645,"date":"2022-09-27T14:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T18:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660645"},"modified":"2022-09-27T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T18:38:06","slug":"serial-podcasts-adnan-syed-set-free-thanks-to-brady-violation-awaits-final-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/serial-podcasts-adnan-syed-set-free-thanks-to-brady-violation-awaits-final-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Serial\u2019 Podcast\u2019s Adnan Syed Set Free Thanks To \u2018Brady Violation,\u2019 Awaits Final Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fserial-podcasts-adnan-syed-set-free-thanks-to-brady-violation-awaits-final-ruling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660645&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On January 13, 1999, 18-year-old high school student Hae Min Lee was reported missing by her parents after she didn\u2019t come home one night. A search was started, and four weeks later, Lee\u2019s body was found half-buried in Leakin Park outside of Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Within weeks of Lee\u2019s body being found, on February 28, 1999, her ex-boyfriend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/adnan-syed-subject-of-hit-serial-podcast-released-from-prison-conviction-overturned\">Adnan Syed<\/a> was arrested for her murder. Lee had recently broken up with Syed, and prosecutors alleged that Syed strangled Lee to death because he couldn\u2019t accept their breakup.<\/p>\n<p>The case against Syed rested primarily on the word of his friend, Jay Wilds, who told police he helped Syed bury Lee\u2019s body. Another witness, Jennifer Pusateri, claimed at trial that Wilds told her about Syed\u2019s alleged confession and that he was shown Lee\u2019s body. The prosecution also presented evidence from cell towers, which backed up at least some of what Wilds said about when things occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Syed always said he was innocent, but in February 2000, he was convicted of Lee\u2019s murder and sentenced to life in prison plus an additional 30 years. He tried to appeal in 2003 but failed. In 2010, he appealed again, on the basis of \u201cineffective assistance of counsel,\u201d Biography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/crime-figure\/adnan-syed\">reported<\/a>. The appeal referred to his original attorney, Cristina Gutierrez, who Syed said did not look into his alibi witness, Asia McClain, who insisted she was with Syed at their high school library when Lee was supposed to have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez in 2001 agreed to be disbarred after other complaints were made against her. She died in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>During his 2010 appeal, Syed\u2019s attorneys also pointed out that the cell tower records from the original trial were unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>What seemed like a big break for Syed came in 2014, when journalist Sarah Koenig began her podcast, \u201cSerial,\u201d and featured Syed\u2019s story. Koenig\u2019s podcast did not blindly advocate for Syed, instead laying out everything the journalist found in the case, whether it pointed to Syed\u2019s innocence in guilt. Koenig noted the unreliability of Wilds\u2019 statement \u2013 which changed repeatedly over the years. His police interviews also appear to show he was coached by Baltimore police during the investigation. Koenig also explained on her podcast that the timeline of the crime didn\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew people would come to different conclusions, of course. Barring some smoking-gun evidence, which we didn\u2019t find (and it seems like no one else has either), there was no way for us to say definitively what happened. But what we were pointing out in our story was that the timeline of the case and the evidence in the case had serious problems. Which meant the people who convicted Adnan of murder,\u00a0they\u00a0didn\u2019t know what happened either,\u201d Koenig recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/20\/briefing\/adnan-syed-freed-serial-sarah-koenig.html\">told<\/a> The New York Times. \u201cAnd so this kid goes to prison for life at 18, based on a story that wasn\u2019t accurate. That\u2019s what we wanted people to think about: Even setting aside the question of Adnan\u2019s guilt or innocence, are we OK with a system that operates like that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serial may have elevated Syed\u2019s story, but it wasn\u2019t without its issues, as Slate <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2022\/09\/serial-legacy-adnan-syed-sarah-koenig.html\">reported<\/a>. Rabia Chaudhry, who is one of the hosts of the \u201cUndisclosed\u201d podcast, compared Serial to a burning house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine you ask someone to help renovate your house. Instead they set fire to it. The story about the fire brings thousands to your aid that rebuild your house,\u201d Chaudhry <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rabiasquared\/status\/1570742013250908160\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is because, as Slate noted, \u201cSerial\u201d cast doubt on Syed\u2019s \u201cinnocence using disproven evidence, and for years never posted a correction or update.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the success of \u201cSerial,\u201d Syed\u2019s story was also the subject of Chaudhry\u2019s own podcast, and a book she published in 2016 called \u201cAdnan\u2019s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial.\u201d McClain, Syed\u2019s alibi witness, also published her own book called \u201cConfessions of a Serial Alibi\u201d in 2016. Investigations Discovery and HBO also produced their own documentaries on the case.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until June 2016 that the legal system started to work in Syed\u2019s favor. That year, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Martin Welch granted Syed a retrial. That ruling was upheld in March 2018 by the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. A year later, however, Syed\u2019s hopes of a retrial were dashed when Maryland\u2019s highest court rejected the appeals court\u2019s decision, claiming the evidence brought up in appeal wouldn\u2019t have changed the jury\u2019s decision had it been included during the original trial.<\/p>\n<p>Syed had to wait three more years to score <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/adnan-syed-subject-of-hit-serial-podcast-released-from-prison-conviction-overturned\">a real court victory<\/a>. On September 19, 2022, Baltimore City Circuit Court judge Melissa Phinn made the decision to overturn Syed\u2019s murder conviction, following a yearlong investigation involving prosecutors and Syed\u2019s attorney, Erica Suter. That investigation discovered that authorities knew two alternate suspects prior to Syed\u2019s trial but withheld the information from his defense. This, the prosecutors and Suter argued, was known as a Brady violation.<\/p>\n<p>One of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 13, 1999, 18-year-old high school student Hae Min Lee was reported missing by her parents after she didn\u2019t come home one night. A search was started, and four weeks later, Lee\u2019s body was found half-buried in Leakin Park outside of Baltimore, Maryland. Within weeks of Lee\u2019s body being found, on February 28, 1999, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1660647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1660647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}