He will remain innocent until and unless the State of Maryland can prove his guilt all over again.īut they can’t because we can prove his innocence with the two pieces of factual information that are irrefutable: that Lee left school after 2.15pm and was intercepted by her killer by 3.30pm on 13 January 1999, after which the family realized something was wrong. He is no longer convicted of any crime but remains charged with the murder of Hae Min Lee, just as he was before trial in 1999. This issue was raised in Adnan’s recent appeal, and ultimately became the reason the judge threw his conviction out and ordered a new trial.Īs it stands now, Adnan Syed is an innocent man. Adnan’s attorney at trial never caught this information, for whatever reason (including the possibility that the state didn’t give it to her). Simpson noticed the cover sheet clearly stated that incoming call information was not reliable for location of the phone. What further undermined the significance of the cell records was a fax cover sheet discovered by Susan Simpson, an attorney and the co-host of our podcast, Undisclosed.

In that, he says the burial took place around midnight, negating any significance the cell records had in placing Adnan near the burial site around 7pm. Wilds changed his story during the investigation and trial, and did so again most recently in an interview with the publication the Intercept.

The state argued the cell records could be used to track Adnan’s movements and back up Wilds’ story, pointing in particular to two incoming phone calls to Adnan’s phone around 7pm that night, both of which pinged a cell tower that covered the area where the victim’s body was found.

Adnan’s conviction turned on two things – a state witness, Jay Wilds, who testified to having helped him bury the body, and Adnan’s cellphone records that the prosecution introduced to corroborate Wilds’ story of his and Adnan’s movements on 13 January 1999, the day the victim Hae Min Lee disappeared.

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