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 tell link prepaid call from an inmate at a Maryland
0:09.2	correctional facility. This call will be recorded and monitored.
0:13.0	There is a major development in a case intimately explored in the hit podcast.
0:18.0	A stunning reversal.
0:20.0	Baltimore State's attorney presenting new evidence of two other possible suspects.
0:24.7	And what this all means is that after decades behind bars,
0:28.7	Adnan could be released from prison. I'd got out of prison yesterday.
0:54.4	It was extraordinary, the whole thing.
0:57.4	Here's his attorney, Erica Souter.
0:59.6	Today, my friend and client, Adnan Saeed, walks free for the first time in 23 years.
1:06.0	On Wednesday of last week, city prosecutors filed a motion saying they could no longer stand behind the murder case they built against Adnan.
1:18.0	They were asking a judge to vacate the conviction.
1:21.0	Five days later, Adnan was out. On home detention for now, but out. Home.
1:27.0	Good afternoon. God is good.
1:30.0	Since the inception of my administration...
1:32.0	Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore State's attorney,
1:34.0	started to give a statement to the dozens of TV cameras and microphones
1:38.0	masked on the sidewalk outside the courthouse.
1:40.0	The public must know that the justice... The justice.
1:45.0	But she couldn't compete with the mayhem when a non finally walked out. From the pent-up strain of years'
1:56.0	from the people who've been arguing for his release,
1:58.0	some of them for decades,
	...

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