SIO354: Serial's Adnan Syed Conviction Reinstated. What Happened?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
When I saw the headlines that Adnan Syed's murder conviction had been reinstated, I asked our friendly SIO legal expert Matt Cameron to take a look. We both assumed it was likely just some procedural thingy that would be quickly resolved. Well, turns out there's a lot more to it than that. Find out what happened and why Matt thinks there's a chance the conviction might not be going away after all.
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Matt's footnotes:
- 85-page Court of Appeals decision in Lee v. State reinstating Adnan Syed's conviction (3/28/23)
- Mosby's Sep 14, 2022 motion to vacate Adnan Syed's conviction
- Judge Phinn's September 19, 2022 order on motion to vacate
- Attorney General Brian Frosh's statement re: SA Mosby's motion to vacate
- Attorney General's fiery response to Adnan Syed's motion to disqualify AG's office from representing the state of Maryland in this appeal
- More on the feud between the Attorney General and Baltimore City State's Attorney over the Adnan Syed conviction: "Maryland AG questions integrity of process used to exonerate Adnan Syed," Maryland Daily Record (10/25/22)
- Full transcription of prosecutor's handwritten note which Mosby alleged constituted Brady evidence and more information in this Baltimore Banner story: "Was Adnan Syed Note Misinterpreted?" Baltimore Banner, (11/1/2022)
- Appellant Young Lee's brief in Lee v. State
- Defendant Adnan Syed's brief in Lee v. State
- 2019 Court of Appeals case finding ineffective assistance of prior counsel in Adnan Syed's case, but not enough prejudice to justify a new trial: State v. Syed :: 2019 :: Maryland Court of Appeals Decisions
- Jay Wilds Plea Agreement (adnansyedwiki.com)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries only this is episode 354 I'm Thomas and I'm joined |
| 0:20.8 | by Matt Cameron. Matt, how are you doing today? Hey Thomas, I'm excited to talk about what |
| 0:25.2 | I think is one of the most interesting legal stories I've seen in years. Wow. Me too. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm excited to do my best to not talk. I'm going to try. I'm going to try. So fucking you |
| 0:33.0 | have no idea. I'm going to try as hard as I possibly can for two reasons. For one, I'll |
| 0:37.2 | just start yelling and then for for another, I'm also under the weather and under the influence |
| 0:42.6 | of medication. So I'm going to try to just listen to you. That's that's actually good. |
| 0:45.6 | Are you saying you have something to say about? I may. I may have something to say, but |
| 0:49.6 | you know what? I'm just a guy, right? And but you can you remind people your experience |
| 0:53.4 | relevant to this story? Well, sure. Among other things for the last 18 years, I've been |
| 0:57.3 | doing criminal defense work. I actually specialize in cremigration, which is trying to undo |
| 1:01.4 | the immigration consequences of criminal offenses. But that means I spend a lot of time working |
| 1:05.6 | in the criminal system. So I'm very familiar. And certainly one of the themes we're talking |
| 1:09.4 | about. And I should mention as well that my primary life partner and best friend of 20 |
| 1:14.0 | years is I was a prosecutor for about 15 years. And so we spend a lot of time talking |
| 1:19.4 | about this stuff. And she works on a lot of murder appeals. So I feel like by a smoke |
| 1:22.0 | process, I picked up quite a lot as well. I bet. Well, sounds like can't argue with |
| 1:25.2 | those credentials. So you're more than just a guy. Okay. So then like I guess we'll get |
| 1:30.1 | your view on this whole add-on thing, huh? No. Okay. We're going to talk about the development. |
| 1:34.4 | I imagine people saw this. A lot of people shared it with me. I imagine what most people |
| 1:38.0 | who haven't delved into this have seen was add-ons conviction was overturned back when |
| 1:42.8 | it, you know, was when we were in Scotland. I couldn't stop thinking about it and I kind |
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