Hello serial listeners, Sarah Canig here.

This week I'm going to do something I haven't done before,

which is ducked back into a non-Sayed case for a few days,

to report on a court proceeding that's happening in Baltimore.

If you have no idea what I'm talking

about right now, quick, go listen to season one of serial and then come back to me in

roughly 10 hours. What's happening this week is not a new trial. It's a hearing. It's actually a

continuation of a non's petition for post-conviction relief. That's something you try

only after you've exhausted your regular appeals. It's kind of a last ditch effort. He first

filed that petition, wow in 2010 I think, long before I got interested in this case.

In fact I think the very first time I talked to Adnan was right when the court had

ruled against him, had denied this petition. But he appealed it, and that's when it started

to get interesting. In broad strokes, Adnan was arguing that his defense attorney at the time

of his trial was incompetent, that she made mistakes that were so bad that he should get some

form of relief, that maybe his conviction for killing Haman Lee should be overturned.

One of those mistakes had non-claimed was that his attorney never contacted a potential alibi

witness, Asia McClain. Remember her?

Anyway, after season one of serial ended, some new stuff came to light,

including some new evidence regarding Asia McClain and about problems with the crucial cell tower testimony at

a non's trial. And over the past year the wheels of justice rolled slowly,

slowly like they do and finally this week the Baltimore City Circuit Court will hear

this new evidence. We'll hear what some new witnesses have to say about what

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