Sarah Koenig

Doesn't work like that for a host of reasons I won't bore you with.

We didn't get to the bottom of this incoming call problem back when we were reporting this story.

At the end of the motion, Becky Fellman tacked on a, by the way, final section about one of the two main detectives on the case, Bill Ritz.

He was accused of misconduct in another murder case that went to trial the same year Adnan did.

In that case, Detective Ritz was accused of manipulating evidence, fabricating evidence, not disclosing exculpatory evidence, not following up on evidence that had pointed to a different suspect.

In 2016, the guy convicted in that case was exonerated.

Ritz was one of the two detectives who repeatedly interviewed Jay Wilds.

So that's the bulk of the state's motion to vacate.

New information about two potential suspects, important evidence withheld from the defense, renewed suspicion of Jay's story, loss of confidence in the cell phone evidence.

And while the Brady violation alone is enough for the state to cry uncle.

All of it together, well, yes, overwhelming cause for concern.

Anand's case was a mess, is a mess.

That's pretty much where we were when we stopped reporting in 2014.

Baltimore City Police have told the prosecutor's office they're going to put someone back on the case.

Someone will try to talk to the two suspects Becky identified in the motion.

I have zero predictions about what could come of that.

But I do know that the chances of the state ever trying to prosecute Anand again are remote at best.

When Rabia Chowdhury first came to me about this case, I hadn't heard of it.

No other journalists were looking at it.

Most of the reporting I did was to try to find out, obviously, who killed this young woman, but also, if everyone's doing their job right, how does a kid get convicted on evidence this shaky?