Prosecutors have requested to quash the previous ruling in the case of Adnan Syed. He is a convicted murderer and was sentenced to life in prison.
The state attorney for the city of Baltimore said in a motion on Wednesday that a year-long investigation found new evidence that suggests two alternative suspects.
Now infamous, the Maryland case gained international attention as the focus of the 2014 podcast Serial.
Baltimore’s attorney’s office currently recommends Syed be released while the investigation is pending, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Hae Min Lee was strangled in 1999 when she was only 17 years old. Adnan Syed, Lee’s ex-girlfriend, was found guilty of strangling her and sentenced to life in prison. Here is what the new investigation found:
During the reinvestigation, prosecutors reportedly found a document in a file for the trial that detailed an incriminating statement from another suspect, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Per the court file, the suspect allegedly said: “…he would make her [Ms. Lee] disappear. He would kill her…”
According to this filing, the exculpatory evidence was requested from the prosecution and never provided to the defense counsel, which is against the law.
Ms. Lee’s car was found in a grassy lot during the initial investigation.
This lot has reportedly been considered valuable new evidence, as the document states it sits behind a residence that once belonged to an unnamed suspect’s relative.
Advancements in evidence have been marked in the case file as “persuasive support substantiating the defense that another person was responsible for the victim’s death.”
Additional investigating found that one of the suspects in question assaulted a stranger while she was in her vehicle, on top of the discovery that a suspect was tried and convicted of sexual assault.
What are the chances that his conviction is overturned? It’s up to the judge to decide if the new evidence is overturning the conviction.
Source The Sun
