Adnan Syed’s murder conviction on hold for now, as Maryland Supreme Court considers appeal

ANNAPOLIS, Md.– Adnan Syed will not go back to prison and his murder conviction is on hold, in the meantime, as Maryland’s Supreme Court chooses whether to hear his appeal.

The state’s greatest court released an order on Thursday that avoids the reinstatement of Syed’s murder conviction by a lower court.

Syed’s legal case started more than twenty years back, and acquired global attention from the hit podcast “Serial.” He restored his flexibility in September from a judge after Baltimore district attorneys relocated to abandon his conviction, stating they evaluated the case and discovered alternative suspects in addition to undependable proof utilized at trial.

However the victim’s household stated they got inadequate notification to participate in the September hearing prior to the judge face to face, which broke their right to be “treated with self-respect and regard,” and the state’s intermediate appellate court concurred. In a 2-1 choice in March that was remained for 60 days, the judges restored Syed’s conviction and purchased a renovate of the hearing in concern.

With the 60 days nearing an end, Syed’s legal representative, Erica Suter, asked the Supreme Court of Maryland on Wednesday to release a remain in the case to avoid her customer from possibly being put behind bars while the court thinks about whether to hear an appeal.

Justice Shirley Watts kept in mind in her order, which was authorized with a bulk of the court’s 7 justices, that the victim’s household and the workplace of the state’s attorney general of the United States have actually granted the stay of the lower court’s required while the Supreme Court thinks about whether to hear the appeal and throughout the pendency of an appeal.

Suter is asking the court to examine numerous legal problems, consisting of whether previous Baltimore State’s Lawyer Marilyn Mosby’s choice to dismiss the charges versus Syed in 2015 made the household’s court obstacle moot.

Syed, who has actually constantly preserved his innocence, was 17 when his high school ex-girlfriend and schoolmate, Hae Minutes Lee, was discovered strangled to death and buried in a makeshift tomb in 1999. He was apprehended weeks later on and eventually founded guilty of murder in 2000.