Posted on 08/19/2019 3:16:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a Maryland man whose murder conviction was chronicled in the hit podcast "Serial" are asking the Supreme Court to step into the case.
Lawyers for defendant Adnan Syed say in court papers Monday that the justices should order a new trial for Syed and reverse a Maryland court ruling against him. Syed claims his trial lawyer violated his constitutional right to competent representation because she failed to investigate an alibi witness.
Syed is serving a life sentence after he was convicted in 2000 of strangling 17-year-old Hae Min Lee and burying her body in a Baltimore park. Syed and Lee were high-school classmates who had dated.
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We need to turn over our justice system to NetFlix, NBC Dateline, and podcast journalists who can uncover the truth (their narrative) and clear 'innocent' people of the crimes they were wrongfully convicted of in our old and outdated justice system.
I remember the case. He was as guilty as sin and the evidence nailed him. Let him rot!
Yes he was. Even the liberal narrator at the end of the series had to admit, grudgingly, that she believed he was probably guilty, too.
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