‘Serial’ Update: Adnan Syed Murder Conviction Should Be Vacated, Prosecutors Say
thewrap.comBaltimore Sun reported. They also asked he be released pending new developments.A yearlong investigation conducted by the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office and Syed’s attorney Erica Suter concluded that the prosecution are guilty of a number of Brady Violations, failure to disclose potentially exculpatory information to Syed’s defense attorneys.
They were not made aware there were two additional suspect in the case, including one who had threatened Lee, saying “he would make her disappear.
He would kill her,” the motion states.“The State’s Brady violations robbed the Defendant of information that would have bolstered his investigation and argument that someone else was responsible for the victim’s death,” Becky Feldman, chief of the state’s attorney’s office’s Sentencing Review Unit, wrote in the motion, adding that he new information has “caused the state to lose faith in the integrity of the convictions.”“Given the stunning lack of reliable evidence implicating Mr.
Syed, coupled with increasing evidence pointing to other suspects, this unjust conviction cannot stand,” said Suter, who is also the director of the University of Baltimore School of Law’s Innocence Project clinic. “Mr.
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