Baltimore officials file a motion to vacate the conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast ‘Serial.
6:22 AM PDT, September 15, 2022Baltimore officials said Wednesday that they have filed a motion to vacate the conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast who was convicted in February 2000 for murdering his ex-girlfriend. Officials on Wednesday requested another trial and said new evidence — including the existence of two potential alternative suspects — casts doubt on Syed's prior conviction.
Prior to Lee's disappearance on January 13, 1999, she and Syed were students at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland. Lee's body was found buried weeks after she vanished in a park in Baltimore, and an autopsy later determined she had died of manual strangulation. According to a document in the state's original trial file and cited in the motion to vacate Syed's conviction, one of the potential suspects allegedly said that"he would make her [Ms. Lee] disappear. He would kill her." A different person"relayed information that can be viewed as a motive for that same suspect to harm the victim," the motion said.
The motion also highlighted the unreliability of the cell phone data records that were"critical pieces of evidence" at his original trial. Those cell phone records, according to the motion, had been used to corroborate witness Jay Wilds' testimony that he and Syed buried Lee's body in the park after he told Wilds he had killed her.
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