Sarah Koenig

The first thing and worst thing they list about these possible suspects, those handwritten notes Becky Feldman found in the state's trial boxes.

They appear to be written by a prosecutor memorializing two different phone calls from different people who called the state's attorney's office to give information about the same person.

The notes aren't dated, but as best as Becky can tell, the calls came in several months apart and before Adnan was tried.

The gist of the information from both calls is that a guy the state had more or less overlooked had a motive to kill Heyman Lee, that this person was heard saying that he was upset with her and that he would, quote, make her disappear.

He would kill her, unquote.

In court yesterday, Becky said the state had looked into this individual and found the information in those handwritten notes to be credible, that the suspect had the, quote, motive, opportunity, and means to commit the crime.

Whether he did or he didn't, though, legally speaking, this would be a major breach.

If they failed to turn over evidence like this to the defense, that's known as a Brady violation.

And that's what so alarms Becky Feldman.

But it looks like Adnan's lawyers never knew about these calls.

That alone could be cause to overturn Adnan's conviction.

So that's the biggest problem the motion explains.

This Brady violation regarding one of the two alternate suspects the prosecutors are not naming.

And the motion says they've also got other new information about these two suspects.

One of them had a connection to the location where Heyman Lee's car was found after she disappeared.

One or both of them have relevant criminal histories, mostly crimes committed after Adnan's trial.

One of them for a series of sexual assaults.

I know who these suspects are.

One of them was investigated at the time, submitted to a couple of polygraphs.

The other was investigated also, but not with much vigor as far as I can tell.