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all means is that after decade

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that

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the non hired got out of prison yesterday was

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, the whole thing thing

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his attorney or a suitor today

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my friend and client had no say it

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works free for the first time and twenty

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three years

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on one day last week city prosecutors

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filed a motion saying they could no longer

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stand behind the murder case they built against

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adnan they're asking a judge to

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vacate the conviction hi days

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later adnan was out i'm

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home detention for now but our home

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good , afternoon is since

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the inception of my marilyn mosey baltimore

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state's attorney started attorney give a statement

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to the dozens of tv cameras and microphones

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mass on the sidewalk outside on courthouse

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now

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did you couldn't compete with the mayhem when

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adnan family was out

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and the people have been

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arguing for his release

2:17

some of them for decades the pensive

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strain of

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years worth of rage and frustration

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suddenly lose down the sidewalk spilling

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onto calvert street

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a non didn't say where

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it just kept his cool while sheriff's

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deputies hurried and to the scrum and into a white

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van a ,

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and i have talked on and off over the years more

2:38

recently seem like he was trying to tamp down

2:41

his hopes not get ahead of himself himself

2:43

of years old attorneys though the guys who tried to get him

2:45

out on bail when he was seventeen i

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cut them out on the sidewalk hugging activists

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i was in the courtroom for the hearing more

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than one hundred people at times shockingly

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quiet

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the known as breathing

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at the beginning young lead a brother of

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hae min lee says murder was about

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to be unsolved by

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a zoom directly to judge melissa sen

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he only try to keep it together but he couldn't i

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think it over he said it always comes

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back a real life living nightmare

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for twenty plus years the

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often told the judge she believes in the justice system

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is not against a new investigation he

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said the jets fan make the right decision

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the prosecutor at the highlights of her motion

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into the record and nones lawyer made a brief

3:39

statement and within about forty minutes

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the judge was ready with her decision hundred

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nineteen states september twenty twenty two

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she said the interests of justice

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the motion to vacate is hereby granted

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you may be asking what on earth happened

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i've been the last it is trying to understand it myself

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where for this nation to vacate the burst

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like a firework and the prosecutors office,

4:06

the very same office, that asked the the jury in

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1999 to quote, come back with

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a guilty finding for first-degree premeditated

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murder by the defendant adnan

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syed the

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prosecutor's today are not saying it down is

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innocent they stop short of exonerating

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they're they're saying the back in nineteen

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ninety nine we didn't investigate this

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early and as we relied on evidence

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we shouldn't have and we broke the rules

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when we prosecuted this wasn't

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an honest conviction

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according to prosecutors office they

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didn't set out to pick uprooted nuns case

4:39

our own case my do they

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, just kind of crumbled once they took

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a hard look i now have

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you heard season one of cereal you know how

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i got there here's how they got

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there almost a year ago

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a new law took effect in maryland the

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juvenile restoration act wherever

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think the law says is that if you've served at least

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twenty years in prison for a crime you committed

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when you were a juvenile you can ask

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port to reduce your sentence maybe even let you

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for the day after this new law comes into effect

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on october second twenty twenty one the

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non current attorney eric a suitor

5:15

delivers his case over to the baltimore city state's

5:17

attorney's office

5:18

for them to look at because

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if you remember a non was only seventeen

5:22

when seventeen when arrested for killing hae min lee classmate

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former girlfriend

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this request goes to becky feldman chief

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of the sentencing review unit for the prosecutor's

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office

5:32

one of the factor she has to weigh and deciding

5:34

whether to support a sentence reduction under this

5:36

new law is the facts of the crime

5:39

the becky phone and starts reading pretty

5:42

soon she's bothered right

5:44

with the case she's having having time

5:46

answering what should be a simple question what

5:49

did not say a level of culpability

5:51

in this crime becky

5:53

four minutes

5:54

the new to the prosecutor's office pretty

5:56

new to being a prosecutor she'd been higher

5:58

but the public defender's office

5:59

the years

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britain's of alarm was cultivated on the

6:03

defense side i

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haven't reviewed and supposed to be reinvested in

6:07

of a case but that's it starts rolling by

6:10

march back his office joined by advanced lawyer

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asks a judge the order new high tech dna

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testing

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that takes a while the work through the system

6:18

the while they wait becky and or consider work together

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pulling summers

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becky's office consult cell phone experts

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a polygraph expert she's all

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up inside google maps and land records

6:29

the states massive case file is over the

6:31

attorney general's office general's few blocks away

6:33

the concert having it over there in june

6:36

the eighties offices like seventeen bucks

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is a case materials his copy machine

6:40

knock yourself out

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she copies a bunch of stuff from the first

6:43

seven boxes takes the papers back

6:45

to her office to read and that's

6:47

when she discovers some handwritten notes

6:50

they're messy hard to make out but

6:52

once you decipher the writing she realizes

6:55

these notes or about or about alternate

6:57

suspected case she ,

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we've never seen these ads before they're

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both shocked once

7:06

the dna results came back in mid august with

7:08

nothing the conclusive are useful they

7:10

took stock of everything they'd learned the

7:13

result was result was the t of problems

7:15

the cumulative effect gave the state quote

7:17

overwhelming cause for concern under

7:20

the circumstances they couldn't justify

7:22

holding a non imprisoned anymore the

7:25

becky feldman wrote a motion to the court motion

7:27

to bake

7:29

the motion to vacate does not hello

7:31

the new story of the crime doesn't layout

7:33

an alternate theory of who killed hae min lee

7:37

the motionless out how the system malfunctioned

7:39

back then and how little we know now

7:42

the headline of the state's motion is that

7:44

they've developed more evidence about to people

7:46

who might have been involved in the crime but

7:49

whom they say weren't proper really ruled out of suspects

7:52

they don't name these people they just call them the suspect

7:54

or at the suspects because they say

7:56

the investigation is ongoing he

7:59

made it anymore together or separately

8:01

they don't know the both were known to detective

8:04

said the time

8:07

the first thing and worst thing they list about

8:09

these possible suspects those hands

8:11

notes becky feldman found in the states trial

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boxes

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they appear to be written by a prosecutor

8:17

memorializing two different phone calls send

8:19

different

8:19

people who called the state's attorney's office

8:21

to give information about the same

8:23

person

8:24

the know turn dated the message

8:26

that you can tell the calls came in several months

8:29

apart and before a

8:30

was tried

8:31

he just of the information from both cause

8:34

is that a guy the state had moralists overlooked

8:36

had a motive to kill hae min lee that

8:39

this person was heard saying that he was upset with her

8:41

and that he would quotes make her disappear

8:43

he would kill her on quo in

8:46

court yesterday becky said the save had looked into

8:48

this individual and founding information

8:50

in the handwritten notes to be credible the

8:53

suspect had a quote motive opportunity

8:55

and means to commit the crime whether

8:57

he did or he didn't though legally

8:59

speaking this would be a major breach

9:02

they failed to turn over evidence like this

9:04

is a defense that's known as brady

9:06

violation that's what so

9:08

alarm specie feldman that it looks

9:10

like a nones lawyers never knew about these calls

9:14

that alone could because to overturn a dance conviction

9:18

so that's the biggest problem emotion explains

9:20

this brady violation regarding one of the

9:22

to alternate suspects the prosecutors

9:24

are not naming and emotion

9:27

says they've also got other new information

9:29

about these two suspects one in an

9:31

had a connection to the location where heyman

9:33

least car was after she disappeared

9:36

one or both of them have relevant criminal histories

9:39

mostly crimes committed after nuns trial

9:41

one of them for series of sexual assault i

9:45

know who these suspects are one

9:47

of them was investigated at the time to

9:49

a couple of polygraph the other

9:51

was investigated also but not with much bigger

9:53

as far as i can tell you know in

9:55

prison for sexual assault the

9:57

no one is charged either these guys in connection

9:59

heyman least murder so not

10:02

going to name them either

10:03

that's all the new information they found

10:05

about the case but the motion continues

10:08

they also looked at the old information

10:11

and , they're saying they've lost season that

10:13

to they don't trust the state the main

10:15

evidence at trial the testimony

10:17

of their star witness j wilds and

10:20

the cellphone records they don't hold up

10:22

separately they don't hold up together if

10:25

you listen to our show you probably remember

10:27

all this jay was a friend of a nonce

10:29

who told the car

10:30

i didn't on said he was going

10:32

kill hae and then after he did it

10:34

he showed j her body in the trunk of a car

10:36

and then coerce j into health

10:38

bury her in a wooded city park

10:40

the motion explains as many people

10:42

have before that the details of jay's

10:44

story kept changing thank

10:47

you film points to one glaring example the

10:49

location where jay says it non first showed

10:51

him his body in his first

10:53

taped interview with the detectives j

10:56

tells them he met up with a non somewhere along

10:58

edmunds and avenue and that's when he

11:00

sees his body in the trunk

11:02

oh come on man

11:09

you say ever

11:12

wanted was in as the officers because

11:15

he forces one has is everywhere he goes

11:17

i don't know about a site

11:21

a couple weeks later j tells the cops

11:23

he met up with a non and saw his by

11:25

the in a different spot and

11:27

, he wrote to your house just

11:29

you receive some of them as a guest

11:32

on his self esteem which is your possess

11:34

guess and the

11:36

conversation was one

11:40

that it is they come get me on

11:43

edge espa

11:45

into stories gotten even more confusing in

11:47

the years since the trial the most

11:49

you know said jay told a reporter not me

11:52

back into

11:52

fourteen that he been out in front of his

11:54

grandmother's house when a non came by and pop

11:56

the trunk

11:58

the trial prosecutor kept saying that the

12:00

jury when

12:01

no he's not the greatest witness i

12:03

do remember that when we first heard his

12:07

testimony that we were all skeptical

12:09

like who is this guy and where did he come from

12:12

such a journey lisa flynn

12:14

the prosecutors are telling the jury don't worry

12:16

you don't have to rely on his testimony alone

12:19

the do anything is corroborated the

12:21

cellphone records cell phone

12:23

evidence was crucial to the state's case it underpinned

12:26

jay's testimony about what happened that night

12:28

where they went from they spoke to a

12:30

glued together the timeline cell phone

12:32

evidence clear up the shagging us of jay's

12:34

story

12:35

after hearing the other testimony

12:37

and then seeing the records and like

12:40

the cell phone records

12:42

knowing that okay is itself even

12:44

as he had five that many

12:46

pretty upset you're you're correct place at

12:49

this time

12:50

the becky common wrote last week's motion that the selfhood

12:52

eminence a trial

12:53

it was unreliable

12:56

no defense team has been saying this for years

12:58

but the state only recently two to three

13:00

experts about what the cell records actually

13:02

show and don't show and

13:05

the experts all agreed you can't use

13:07

the incoming call records to back up jays

13:09

narratives doesn't work like that for

13:11

a host reasons i won't bore you with we

13:14

didn't get to the bottom of this incoming call problem back

13:16

when we were putting the story

13:21

at the end of the motion becky salmond tacked

13:23

on a by the way final section

13:26

about one of the two main tachibana case

13:28

bill rates he was accused of

13:30

misconduct in another murder case that went to trial

13:32

the same you're a non did in that

13:34

case detective rich was accused manipulating

13:37

evidence fabricating evidence not disclosing

13:40

exculpatory evidence not following up on

13:42

evidence pointed to a different suspect and

13:44

twenty sixteen the guy convicted in that

13:46

exonerated

13:48

written is one of the two detectives who

13:50

repeatedly interview jay wilds

13:56

that's the bulk of the state's motion to vacate

13:59

new and

13:59

nation about to potential suspects

14:02

important evidence withheld from the defense

14:05

renewed suspicion of jay's story loss of

14:07

confidence in the cell phone evidence and

14:09

while the brady violation alone is enough they

14:11

to cry uncle all together

14:14

well yes overwhelming

14:16

cause for concern

14:18

the non case with a mess is

14:21

amiss that's pretty much where we were

14:23

when we stopped reporting and twenty fourteen

14:25

the more city police have told the prosecutor's

14:27

office they're gonna put someone back on the case

14:30

and will try to talk to the two suspects becky identified

14:32

in the motion i , zero

14:35

predictions about look at canada but

14:37

i do know that the chances of the state ever

14:39

to into prosecuted

14:49

when rami choudhry first came to me about this case

14:52

i hadn't heard of it no other journalists

14:54

were looking at it most of the reporting

14:56

the reporting was try to find out obviously

14:58

who killed this young woman but also if

15:00

everyone's doing their job rate how does

15:02

it could get convicted on evidence this shaky

15:06

the years since our story first aired robbie

15:08

and others have pushed to find out more now

15:10

here comes city prosecutors nair going even

15:12

further the picture that emerged

15:15

is this the not case

15:17

contains just about every chronic problem

15:19

or system can cause who

15:22

is using questionable interview methods

15:24

prosecutors keeping crucial evidence from

15:26

the defense slightly junkie science

15:29

extreme prison sentences juveniles

15:31

treated as adults

15:33

how grindingly difficult it is get

15:35

your case back in court once you've been convicted

15:39

the baltimore court

15:40

i'm worried non hearing was held is an old

15:42

school architectural jam they're

15:44

hoping the massive shit the lawyers while secured

15:48

the soaring ceilings are meant to inspire

15:50

soaring thoughts about justice

15:52

presumably and fairness yesterday

15:56

there was a lot of talk about fairness that

15:59

most of the

15:59

they put in motion to vacate all

16:02

the actual evidence was either

16:04

know the or knowable to cops and prosecutors

16:07

eighteen nineteen ninety nineteen even

16:10

on a day when the government publicly recognizes

16:12

it's own mistakes it's hard to feel

16:15

in about a triumph of fairness

16:17

it up a system that takes more than twenty

16:19

years since correct and

16:22

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