Serial S01 - Ep. 13: Adnan Is Out

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🗓️ 18 December 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It’s Baltimore, 2022. Adnan Syed has spent the last 23 years incarcerated, serving a life sentence for the murder of Hae Min Lee, a crime he says he didn’t commit. He has exhausted every legal avenue for relief, including a petition to the United States Supreme Court. But then, a prosecutor in the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s office stumbled upon two handwritten notes in Adnan’s case file, and that changes everything.

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0:00.0	Hello, serial listeners. This is Sarah Koenig. If you're listening to this show, I'm hoping that means that you're into it, and maybe you want to hear more stories like it. Well, you're in luck, because we've got a brand new show called The Idiot coming at the end of March, 26. Just like or follow this podcast, the serial podcast, on your podcast app, and you'll
0:23.1	automatically be notified when the idiot comes out. And I am predicting you're going to love it.
0:28.1	Okay, on to serial season one.
0:32.8	This is a global tell link prepaid call from an inmate at a Maryland correctional facility.
0:43.5	This call will be recorded and monitored.
0:46.0	There is a major development in a case intimately explored in the hit podcast.
0:50.2	A stunning reversal.
0:52.5	Baltimore State's attorney presenting new evidence of two other possible suspects. And what this all means is that after decades behind bars, Adnan could be released from prison. prison. Anansayad got out of prison yesterday.
1:27.1	It was extraordinary, the whole thing.
1:29.7	Here's his attorney, Erica Souter.
1:32.0	Today, my friend and client Adnan Syed walks free for the first time in 23 years.
1:43.4	On Wednesday of last week, city prosecutors filed a motion saying they could no longer stand behind the murder case they built against Adnan.
1:51.1	They were asking a judge to vacate the conviction.
1:53.9	Five days later, Adnan was out.
1:56.1	On home detention for now, but out.
1:58.6	Home.
1:59.6	Good afternoon.
2:01.2	God is good.
2:04.4	Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore State's attorney,
2:07.0	started to give a statement to the dozens of TV cameras and microphones
2:10.2	massed on the sidewalk outside the courthouse.
2:12.7	The public must know that the justice...
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