‘Serial’ streams new episode after Adnan Syed launched
“Serial” explored Syed’s conviction for the homicide of his highschool girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Judge Melissa Phinn of the Baltimore City Circuit Court vacated his 1999 conviction on Monday.
In 2014, “Serial,” which is hosted by journalist Sarah Koenig, helped propel curiosity in podcasts and Syed’s specific case.
“Serial” explored Syed’s conviction for the homicide of his highschool girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Judge Melissa Phinn of the Baltimore City Circuit Court vacated his 1999 conviction on Monday.
In 2014, “Serial,” which was hosted by journalist Sarah Koenig, helped set off each an curiosity in podcasts and Syed’s specific case. Season 1, comprised of 12 episodes, set podcast information on the time of its launch with greater than 300 million downloads, based on producers of this system.
It stays steadily cited as one of the vital well-liked podcasts on the planet and was No. 1 on Apple’s podcast chart on Tuesday, the identical day a brand new episode launched through which Koenig explains how Syed’s launch happened.
“According to the prosecutor’s workplace, they did not got down to choose aside Adnan’s case — their very own case thoughts you,” Koenig says within the new episode. “They say it simply sort of crumbled as soon as they took a tough look.”
Syed had been serving a life sentence for first-degree homicide, theft, kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Material within the state investigation that was not correctly turned over to Syed’s protection attorneys, and the existence of two suspects who could have been improperly cleared as a part of the investigation, have been cited as the explanations for the conviction being vacated.
“Adnan’s case was a multitude — is a multitude. That’s just about the place we have been once we stopped reporting in 2014,” Koenig says in podcast. “Baltimore City Police have instructed the prosecutor’s workplace they’re gonna put somebody again on the case. Someone will attempt to speak to the 2 suspects Becky [Feldman, chief of the state’s attorney’s office sentencing review unit] recognized within the movement. I’ve zero predictions about what might come of that. But I do know that the possibilities of the state ever attempting to prosecute Adnan once more are distant at greatest.”
Prosecutors have 30 days to resolve whether or not to pursue a brand new trial towards Syed.