On this Feb. 3, 2016 file photograph, Adnan Syed enters Courthouse East in Baltimore previous to a listening to. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/The Baltimore Solar by way of AP)
BALTIMORE --
A Baltimore choose has ordered new testing for proof within the case of a Maryland man whose homicide conviction was chronicled within the podcast "Serial."
Baltimore Circuit Courtroom Choose Melissa Phinn signed an order Monday mandating that Baltimore police ship proof within the case towards Adnan Syed inside 15 days to a California crime lab, information shops reported.
Final week, prosecutors and Syed's defence each signed a movement in search of a retest of some objects collected as proof within the 1999 killing of 17-year-old Hae Min Lee utilizing DNA expertise that was not accessible for Syed's trials.
Syed is serving a life sentence after he was convicted in 2000 of strangling Lee and burying her physique in a Baltimore park. Syed and Lee had been highschool classmates who had dated.
In its debut 2014 season, the "Serial" podcast shined a highlight on the case that led to renewed courtroom proceedings.
Authorities have maintained Lee struggled in a automotive with Syed earlier than her dying. Within the newest movement, Syed's lawyer argued that in such circumstances, a killer must be in shut proximity to the sufferer. The movement requested testing the proof for the presence of DNA.
Syed's defence approached the state's lawyer's workplace's sentencing assessment unit about Syed's case, the state's lawyer's workplace stated in an announcement. Because the case was reviewed for a potential resentencing, it grew to become clear that it could be acceptable to pursue extra forensic testing, which wasn't accessible through the unique investigation or trial, prosecutors stated. The Juvenile Restoration Act, which handed final yr, permits these convicted as juveniles to request a sentence modification after serving a minimum of 20 years in jail.
The Workplace of the Legal professional Common oversaw the DNA evaluation of proof in Syed's case in 2018 and not one of the samples examined optimistic of Syed. His defence argued that was proof he did not kill Lee, however prosecutors disagreed. Objects being examined underneath this order weren't examined through the lawyer common's assessment.
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