In its first season in 2014, the Serial podcast followed the Baltimore murder case of Syed, seen here in the fall of his senior year, who was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Syed's failure to account precisely for his whereabouts after school" that day. It said her testimony wouldn't have rebutted the state's evidence about Syed's actions that evening, and at best "would have highlighted Mr. The appeals court found that McClain's account focused on "a narrow window of time in the afternoon" of the day Lee disappeared. McClain's proffered testimony could have further undermined Mr. McClain would have been an alibi witness who contradicted the defendant's own statements, which were themselves already internally inconsistent thus Ms. In the majority opinion, Court of Appeals Judge Clayton Greene concluded "there is not a significant or substantial possibility that the verdict would have been different," if Syed's lawyer had presented the alibi witness, Asia McClain, who said she saw Syed at a public library in Woodlawn, Md., around the time the state contended Syed killed Lee on Jan. The special appeals court upheld the lower court's ruling last year and the state appealed that decision, too.
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appeals court upholds new trial for Serial podcast subject Adnan Syed In 2016, a lower court ordered a re-trial for Syed on grounds that his lawyer, Cristina Gutierrez, who died in 2004, didn't contact an alibi witness and provided ineffective counsel. The show revealed little-known evidence and attracted millions of listeners, shattering podcast-streaming and downloading records.
More than a decade later, the popular Serial podcast brought Syed's case to millions of listeners with its debut 2014 season. Syed is serving a life sentence after he was convicted in 2000 of strangling 17-year-old Hae Min Lee and burying her body in a Baltimore park. The court reversed a Court of Special Appeals' judgment, sending the case back to that court with directions to reverse a Baltimore Circuit Court judgment granting a new trial. The court said Syed waived his ineffective counsel claim. In a 4-3 opinion, the Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that Adnan Syed's legal counsel was deficient in failing to investigate an alibi witness, but it disagreed that the deficiency prejudiced the case.
Maryland's highest court denied a new trial Friday for a man whose murder conviction was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial.
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