"I would never bet the house on anything, but it would be an incredibly hard case to retry," University of Baltimore law professor David Jaros said. Then the popular "Serial" podcast raised questions in 2014 about the evidence against him. Syed was convicted of killing ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, 18, whose body was found buried in Baltimore’s Leakin Park in 1999. "The idea of retrying this case would be an incredible long shot." "They won't retry this case, because where are they going to come up with all the evidence in the case when they've already acknowledged there are inconsistencies?" NBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos said. Prosecutors are considering their next move after they successfully lobbied a Baltimore judge to vacate his murder conviction. Baltimore prosecutors have a month to decide whether to retry Adnan Syed, although legal analysts - and the victim's family - said Tuesday they have no expectation the murder case will ever be tried again.Īfter more than two decades in prison, Syed, 42, walked out of court Monday a free man but under house detention.
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