Serial Adnan Appeal Trial Matched Wilds
His ex-girlfriend, has been granted an appeal by a Maryland court.Investigators used the call log from Syed's cell phone to corroborate the story of the man who accused Syed of Lee's murder, former classmate Jay Wilds. Prosecutors at trial matched Wilds' version of events to incoming and outgoing calls on Syed's cell phone, claiming that cell tower "pings" showed that Syed was at Leakin Park in West Baltimore, where Lee's body was later found.Syed's attorney C. Adnan was claiming that the Court of Appeals of Maryland applied the incorrect legal framework for determining whether a trial attorney’s deficient performance is prejudicial. And, while his petition made a compelling argument, the prejudice analysis typically depends on the facts of every individual case.The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Maryland mans bid for a new trial based on information uncovered by the hit podcast 'Serial.' Paul Gessler of CBS Bal.In a dissenting opinion, Judge Kathryn Grill Graeff disagreed with the majority, saying Syed had failed to overcome the presumption that his trial lawyer's failure to contact McClain was based on reasonable trial strategy. Graeff said she would have reversed the lower court's ruling granting Syed a new trial.Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun/Getty.
McClain, who signed an affidavit saying that she had seen Mr. Syed’s, a law student named Rabia Chaudry, independently reached out to Ms. Gutierrez had not in fact contacted Ms. Syed was convicted, it was determined that Ms. She said she had “and nothing had come of it,” the panel said.After Mr.
Syed’s argument that she had been negligent in her defense of him. McClain formed a key part of Mr. Gutierrez’s failure to interview or contact Ms.
13, 1999, as she was leaving school. Welch of the Baltimore City Circuit Court.The state appealed that ruling to the Court of Special Appeals.He has served 16 years of a life sentence after being convicted in 2000, but has maintained his innocence for almost two decades.Ms. Syed was granted a retrial in 2016 by Judge Martin P.
Lee later began dating another man.Ms. They broke up in 1998 and Ms. Lee dated as high school students but kept their relationship secret because of cultural differences between their families. Syed had told the police that he and Ms.
“As long as I live, my daughter is buried in my heart. Syed for her daughter’s death, The Sun reported at the time.“When I die, my daughter will die with me,” she told the court. Syed’s sentencing hearing in 2000, telling the court that though she wanted to, she did not think she could bring herself to forgive Mr.
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