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🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to Love Murder Current Affairs, our show about the cases of Lovecon fatally |
0:13.0 | wrong that are in the news right now. |
0:15.2 | Today we are kicking off with some updates from previous cases. |
0:19.6 | And I truly cannot believe we are still talking about this, but perhaps the most famous |
0:24.7 | case in true crime history, or at least true crime podcast history, is that of Adnan |
0:30.0 | Saeed. |
0:31.0 | As a young man, he was convicted of the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Hay Menli when |
0:36.5 | the two were both in high school, but he has always maintained his innocence. |
0:40.5 | His case was the subject of the first season of the breakout hit serial, which in many |
0:45.1 | ways set the stage for this entire genre. |
0:48.7 | In September of last year, however, a Baltimore Circuit judge Melissa Finn vacated Saeed's |
0:53.6 | conviction. |
0:54.6 | It came five days after Baltimore prosecutors had filed a motion to vacate. |
0:58.9 | The state's attorney, Marilyn Mosby, said in that motion that, quote, the state no longer |
1:03.7 | has confidence in the integrity of the conviction. |
1:06.9 | In part because after a year-long re-investigation, they had found new information, including |
1:12.3 | a set of alternative suspects. |
1:14.9 | After the release, the state had 30 dates to decide if they wanted to pursue a new trial |
1:19.5 | against Saeed, which they ultimately declined to do. |
1:23.0 | However, that's not the end of the story. |
1:25.3 | In the wake of the overturned conviction, the family of Hay Menli filed an appeal asking |
1:30.4 | for a redo of the hearing, arguing that the court had not given Hay Men's brother Young |
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