Should Adnan Syed’s charges be vacated?

[Anonymous]

His family fought to keep his original lawyer who’s now dead. A cursory review of the evidence points irrefutably to his guilt.
Podcasts?

[Anonymous]

https://www.courts.state.md.us/sites/default/files/import/coappeals/highlightedcases/syed/amendedbriefofpetitioner.pdf

Maybe review the evidence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This case illustrates some interesting points:
1. How straight forward cases can be turned into entertainment because few are willing to do their own research. Serial was an awesome podcast but it was entertainment. They had a stake is creating confusion and doubt. For many Serial is there only exposure to the case. I really question the deductive skills of anyone who has read the transcript and other resources and thinks he Adnan innocent.
2. Jay is shady but he knew details of the crime that only the killer or accomplice could know. It is impossible for Jay to not be involved. If Jay was involved Adnan was involved. They admit to spending the day together and lots of evidence backs that up. The expectation that an accomplice to murder would only tell the truth and not be shady is strange.
3. It isn't the prosecutions job to hunt down every detail to satisfy the public who might become interested decades later. It was an easy case to prove and they proved it.

That being said, I know he is guilty but if the prosecution violated the law he deserves a retrial.

Thanks for these comments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This case illustrates some interesting points:
1. How straight forward cases can be turned into entertainment because few are willing to do their own research. Serial was an awesome podcast but it was entertainment. They had a stake is creating confusion and doubt. For many Serial is there only exposure to the case. I really question the deductive skills of anyone who has read the transcript and other resources and thinks he Adnan innocent.
2. Jay is shady but he knew details of the crime that only the killer or accomplice could know. It is impossible for Jay to not be involved. [b]If Jay was involved Adnan was involved. They admit to spending the day together and lots of evidence backs that up. The expectation that an accomplice to murder would only tell the truth and not be shady is strange.
3. It isn't the prosecutions job to hunt down every detail to satisfy the public who might become interested decades later. It was an easy case to prove and they proved it.

That being said, I know he is guilty but if the prosecution violated the law he deserves a retrial.

It's been speculated that the police fed Jay the info. So there's an alternative explanation as to how Jay could know certain details without actually being involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh, he's serves 20 yrs. Give him an Alford plea for man2 time served and call it a day. Fwiw I think he's probably guilty but doesn't seem like enough evidence to convict.

He turned down an Alford plea several years ago because he says he is innocent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His family fought to keep his original lawyer who’s now dead. A cursory review of the evidence points irrefutably to his guilt.
Podcasts?

Cursory being the operative word. There is no physical evidence tying Adnan to crime and the state’s case was based on cell tower evidence subsequently thrown out by an appellate court, and the shifting testimony of Jay. Add in that one of the two primary detectives has been found to have fabricated evidence in other cases.

Hae’s car was found in plain sight on a Baltimore city street, it would have been very easy for the police to locate first and feed to a witness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh, he's serves 20 yrs. Give him an Alford plea for man2 time served and call it a day. Fwiw I think he's probably guilty but doesn't seem like enough evidence to convict.

This. He's already likely served way more time than most convicted murderers.

[Anonymous]

For those interested, a new Serial episode has droppped and apparently there is a discussion of the alternative suspects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those interested, a new Serial episode has droppped and apparently there is a discussion of the alternative suspects.

Thank you friend. Listening now

[Anonymous]

I never listened to Serial, but based on what the prosecutor found it’s clear this case needs to be retried. A jury could very well conclude there are reasonable doubts in this case based on evidence that should have been turned over but wasn’t. The prosecutor had an obligation to disclose evidence and didn’t. There needs to be a consequence for that.

[Anonymous]

He’s guilty as hell. The “doubts” were covered in the trial. Not calling a witness because his defense attorney recognizes that her testimony did nothing to establish his innocence is hardly grounds for dismissal but whatever.

Maybe he can help OJ find Nicole Brown’s killer.

[Anonymous]

As a Baltimore born-and-bred anon here, I'm largely amused that this case is still sucking a lot of oxygen out of the room. The Keith Davis Jr. affair is the far more outrageous one. He was cornered, shot multiple times by the cops, and he's the one who's still behind bars. Marilyn Mosby protected those cops, and charged this man with a crime he did not commit.

Adnan Syed is probably guilty, and shame on that god awful Marilyn Mosby for pulling this. Every decision this SA has made in the last couple years is clearly driven by anger over her and her idiot husband getting caught lying on mortgage applications (paging Ed Norris!)... And now that she's getting replaced via the ballot box, this is just more of her lashing out.

[Anonymous]

Just listen to a few episodes of the 1st season of the undisclosed podcasts. They make it very clear that the detectives are feeding Jay the story and you can hear the detective knocking on the table in the tapes every time he gets something wrong.

[Anonymous]

So the man that found her body, "Mr. S"...in Serial didn't Sarah mention that Mr. S's brother (half brother? Step brother?) was married to a woman that was a teacher at Hai's school.
In Undisclosed they mention a Ms. Schwab became very involved in the case and took it upon herself to become sort of a liaison. So the "S" for "Schwab? Is Ms. Schwab "Mr. S's" sister in law?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the man that found her body, "Mr. S"...in Serial didn't Sarah mention that Mr. S's brother (half brother? Step brother?) was married to a woman that was a teacher at Hai's school.
In Undisclosed they mention a Ms. Schwab became very involved in the case and took it upon herself to become sort of a liaison. So the "S" for "Schwab? Is Ms. Schwab "Mr. S's" sister in law?

I'm wondering if Mr. S is one of the suspects because I read in an article that he's not because he doesnt have any serious criminal background, but they also said one of the suspects had had two lie detectors which he did have. In Undisclosed latest episode, they said they didnt want to name who they thought were suspects, but seemed to imply Mr. S. I would be very surprised if the Mr. S and Ms. Schwab were related, but thats probably my own biases.