“This morning I instructed my office to dismiss the criminal case against Adnan Syed following the second round of DNA testing on items never tested before,” said Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby.
after new DNA evidence appeared to rule out his involvement in the 1999 murder of his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee.
Last month, Syed’s life sentence was vacated by a Baltimore City Circuit Court after a year-long investigation by the Baltimore City State’s Attorney Office and Syed’s legal team uncovered two alternative suspects—one of which was never disclosed to Syed’s defense attorneys—and new evidence. In a Tuesday press conference, Mosby explained that advanced forensics called Touch DNA was able to yield the new evidence overlooked in Syed’s original trial. Touch DNA only requires a small sample, such as skin cells, to find possible suspects.
In 2016, a judge vacated Syed’s conviction and ordered a new trial—but that decision faced several appeals and reversals, before the highest court in Maryland, the Court of Appeals, finally denied the retrial in 2019. That same year, the U.S. Supreme Court denied to hear Syed’s case, leaving little hope for a pathway toward his release.
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