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	This is a global talent link prepaid call from
0:04.3	Adnan Sayyud
0:07.3	And in NADAT, a Maryland correctional facility
0:10.7	This call will be recorded and monitored
0:13.3	There is a major development in a case
0:15.6	intimately explored in the HIT podcast
0:17.8	Motions, a stunning reversal
0:19.8	Baltimore states attorney presenting new evidence
0:22.6	of two other possible suspects
0:24.4	And what this all means is that after decades
0:27.6	behind bars Adnan could be released from prison
0:52.4	Adnan Sayyud got out of prison yesterday
0:54.8	was extraordinary the whole thing
0:57.3	Here's his attorney, Arca Souter
0:59.6	Today, my friend and client Adnan Sayyud
1:03.1	walks free for the first time in 23 years
1:11.4	On Wednesday of last week, city prosecutors
1:13.7	filed a motion saying they could no longer stand behind the murder case they
1:17.2	built against Adnan
1:18.8	They were asking a judge to vacate the conviction
1:21.4	Five days later, Adnan was out
1:23.6	On home detention for now, but out
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