More testimony for convicted killer's alibi in Syed case

More testimony for convicted killer's alibi in Syed case, As a bedevilled assassin seeks a new balloon in a case spotlighted by the accepted "Serial" podcast, an account attestant who was never afore alleged to affirm in the case has casting doubts about affirmation from the case's above prosecutor, who she says abiding her not to appear advanced with advice that ability advice win the actor a new trial.

Asia McClain, now accepted as Asia Chapman, testified Wednesday during a audition for Adnan Syed, who was bedevilled of murdering Hae Min Lee and is confined a activity sentence. He is gluttonous a new balloon on the area that his aboriginal advocate was abortive for declining to acquaintance McClain.

Chapman has said she saw Syed in a library aural the time if prosecutors argue he was killing Lee, in 1999. But McClain was never contacted by Syed's advocate to affirm at his trial. Syed's accepted advocate contends that abortion amounts to abortive board and Syed should accept a new trial.

Chapman told the cloister that years afterwards Syed was convicted, Syed's new attorney, who was alive on an appeal, visited her at her home and larboard a business card. She looked up the case and alleged then-prosecutor Kevin Urick because she ample he'd be beneath biased than the aegis attorney.

In their 34-minute buzz conversation, during which she took abundant notes, McClain said Urick told her that Syed "killed that girl."

"I absolved abroad activity like (the defense) was aggravating to dispense the cloister to get him in foreground of a judge," Chapman testified, abacus that Urick assertive her that Syed "was 100 percent guilty, and it was a decay of my time to get involved."

But she says Urick after testified at Syed's aboriginal post-conviction audition that his buzz alarm with her lasted alone 5 minutes, and said that she'd told him that her affirmation was false.

"He said I told him aggregate I said in the affirmation was not true, that I wrote the affirmation because I was pressured," Chapman said of Urick's testimony. "All of this was account to me. I was in shock. I was affronted that I had accustomed my thoughts and opinions to be represented by a third party."

After acquirements of Urick's affirmation Chapman said she requested her buzz annal and absolute that her chat with Urick lasted 34 minutes.

Chapman aswell said she would accept appear to cloister to affirm even if she hadn't been subpoenaed.

"I acquainted it was the appropriate affair to do," she said. "For amends to be served all advice has to be on the table."

A bulletin larboard at Urick's appointment was not anon alternate Wednesday.

Chapman will be alleged to the angle for added affirmation Thursday.
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