Welcome, everyone, to a very special episode of Undisclosed this week in which it is all about Adnan.

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our sponsors because they support us. Until then, enjoy the program. In 1999, shortly after Adnan Sayyed was arrested for the murder of Haman Lee, his attorneys applied for bail.

As a juvenile with no record and all factors in his favor, there was a possibility it could be granted,

though in any such case, bail is always hard to come by.

In his case, though, it was made harder because the state argued against it because of his religion and ethnicity.

And then, it was made impossible because his charging documents got a very important fact about Adnan wrong.

But just last week, nearly 18 years after the fiasco in 1999,

Justin Brown, Adnan's attorney, filed for bail again. A classic 1961 article in the Yale Law Journal notes that, since the general notion of bail pending trial antedates recorded English law, its original raison d'artre is not altogether certain.

It probably arose from medieval sheriff's desire to

avoid the costly and troublesome burden of personal responsibility for those in this charge.

Trails were delayed by the infrequent visits of itinerate justices and many accused died because of the

unsanitary conditions in the prisons. And now in modern day society with the amount of violence

occurring in many prisons, the risks of prisoners has been compounded.

After Judge Welch issued his order granting a not-a-new trial, Rabia wasn't initially able to get in touch with him because his prison was on lockdown.

This was because there was a brawl that had broken out among 26 inmates using improvised weapons that was exacerbated and perhaps even caused by staffing shortages that had been noted numerous times. Similar issues led the Department of Justice to recently filed an amicus brief in a

case out of Calhoun, Georgia, arguing that state's bail system is unconstitutional and exposes

too many inmates to the ills of pre-trial detention. Likely in response to this brief, the Maryland

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