Serial S01 - Ep. 13: Adnan Is Out
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What major development occurred in Adnan Syed's case?
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This is a Global Telelink prepaid call from Adnan Sayed. An inmate at a Maryland correctional facility. This call will be recorded and monitored. There is a major development in a case intimately explored in the hit podcast. A stunning reversal. Baltimore State's attorney presenting new evidence of two other possible suspects. And what this all means is that after decades behind bars, Adnan could be released from prison.
Adnan Syed got out of prison yesterday. It was extraordinary, the whole thing. Here's his attorney, Erica Suter.
Today, my friend and client Adnan Syed walks free for the first time in 23 years.
On Wednesday of last week, city prosecutors filed a motion saying they could no longer stand behind the murder case they built against Adnan. They were asking a judge to vacate the conviction. Five days later, Adnan was out. On home detention for now, but out. Home.
Good afternoon. God is good.
Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore State's attorney, started to give a statement to the dozens of TV cameras and microphones massed on the sidewalk outside the courthouse.
The public must know that the justice... The justice... But she couldn't compete with the mayhem when Adnan finally walked out.
From the people who've been arguing for his release, some of them for decades, the pent-up strain of years' worth of rage and frustration suddenly loosed on the sidewalk, spilling onto Calvert Street. How do you feel, man? Thank you. Anand didn't say a word, just kept his cool while sheriff's deputies hurried him through the scrum and into a white van. Anand and I have talked on and off over the years. More recently, it seemed like he was trying to tamp down his hopes, not get ahead of himself. A couple of his old attorneys, though, the guys who tried to get him out on bail when he was 17, I caught them out on the sidewalk, hugging. I don't know if I would have been able to hack it if she said so. I don't know if I could have.
I was in the courtroom for the hearing. More than 100 people, at times shockingly quiet, as if no one was breathing. At the beginning, Young Lee, the brother of Hayman Lee, whose murder was about to be unsolved, spoke via Zoom directly to Judge Melissa Finn. Young Lee tried to keep it together, but he couldn't. When I think it's over, he said, it always comes back. A real-life living nightmare for 20-plus years. But he also told the judge he believes in the justice system. He's not against a new investigation. He said to Judge Finn, make the right decision. Then the prosecutor read the highlights of her motion into the record. Adnan's lawyer made a brief statement. And within about 40 minutes, the judge was ready with her decision.
On this 19th day of September 2022, she said, in the interests of justice, the motion to vacate is hereby granted. You might be asking, what on earth happened? I've spent the last few days trying to understand it myself. Wherefore this motion to vacate that burst like a firework out of the prosecutor's office? The very same office that asked the jury in 1999 to, quote, come back with a guilty finding for first-degree premeditated murder by the defendant, Adan Syed.
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