Judge Martin Welch of the Baltimore City-limits Circuit Cloister issued an adjustment on Friday for Mr. Syed’s postconviction affairs to be reopened. The judge’s order, acquaint online by Mr. Syed’s lawyer, is a above achievement in the inmate’s advance to be accepted a new trial.
Mr. Syed’s new aegis lawyer, C. Justin Brown, said the audition would acquiesce his applicant to acquaint affirmation accompanying to his account on the day his ex-girlfriend vanished in January 1999 and to the believability of abstracts from a corpuscle belfry presented during his 2000 trial. The adjustment came afterwards a cellphone able who testified for the case and a abeyant account attestant filed new affirmation affidavits in the case.“We anticipate this is a actual big footfall in the administration of accepting Adnan a new trial,” Mr. Brown said. “We were blessed that the adjudicator is traveling to apprehend added evidence. It’s agitative account for us, but there’s still a continued way for us.”
“By no agency does this end the case,” he added. “In some ways, it opens the aperture for added acknowledged proceedings. But we are beholden for the adventitious to move forward.”
The adjustment could not anon be acquired from the court, which is bankrupt on weekends.
Mr. Syed’s advocate is gluttonous a new balloon in the afterlife of the girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, who was begin deadened in a city-limits esplanade a ages afterwards she disappeared.
Mr. Syed, 35, was bedevilled of first-degree annihilation in 2000 and is confined a activity sentence.
His confidence was the accountable of the aboriginal division of “Serial,” a accessible radio aftereffect of “This American Life” that examines album belief over assorted episodes. It has been downloaded about 100 actor times and won a Peabody Award for “illuminating advancing flaws” in the bent amends system.
The adjustment requires a audition to be appointed aural 10 days. The audition will focus on a antecedent aegis lawyer’s abortion to acquaintance a above acquaintance who said she had announced with Mr. Syed in a library, a cellphone able witness’s affirmation that he was not apparent an important disclaimer, and prosecutorial delinquency in the postconviction proceedings.
Abraham Waranowitz, a above AT&T architect who testified for the prosecution, filed an affirmation in October in which he said that prosecutors had not apparent him a page of Mr. Syed’s cellphone annal that independent a abnegation about the believability of abstracts from cellphone towers, and that the page would accept afflicted his testimony. The case had acclimated abstracts from admission calls to abode Mr. Syed at the annihilation scene.
In a letter from March 1999 that was cited in a motion to reopen the post-trial affairs in June, Asia McClain, a above acquaintance who was featured on the podcast, said she had announced with Mr. Syed in a accessible library at the time prosecutors said Ms. Lee had been killed. Ms. McClain filed an affirmation in January adage Mr. Syed’s balloon advocate had never contacted her.
The additional division of “Serial” will focus on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an Army soldier answerable with abrogation afterwards he abolished in 2009 in Afghanistan and was captured and captivated by the Taliban. He was appear in a captive bandy in 2014. Sarah Koenig, the host of “Serial,” said that it was too anon to accede revisiting Mr. Syed’s case, but that she was afraid at the judge’s decision.
She added, “I’m dying to apperceive what’s traveling to appear next.”
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