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Podcast "serial" that brought the case and the possibility there had been a miscarriage of justice in the case. whenever i think its over, its ended, it always comes back. the judge ruled in favor of the motion filed by prosecutors who asked for syeds immediate release. it turned up a slew of failures cited in a 21-page court document. among them, the unreliability used in the original trial, advances in dna testing and most critically two alternative suspects and the states failure. >> our inve...

This morning quite a development in a decades-long saga here. adnan syed the man at the center of a popular serial podcast is waking up at home. this after a baltimore judge vacated his conviction. more on what that means exactly in a moment. syed spent more than 20 years behind bars for the murder of his former girlfriend hae min lee. he has maintained his innocence the entire time. >> our cnn correspondent alexandra fields has been following all of this. youve been talking about this a lot in ...

Incredibly critical role in that. dna testing has always been a part of this case, it was used at the time of the initial trial, there were items that were tested again in 2018, but as the technology continues to evolve, prosecutors are relying on it once again. so they say they are taking items that were recovered at the time of the crime, they are trying to get new dna results using the evolved technology. that will help them to determine whether to proceed to new trial or dismiss the charges ...

The Innocence Project says the problem with wrongful convictions is systemwide.

Conviction will be vacated. >> hes maintained his innocence for more than 20 years since being convicted. defense attorneys have always sought to appeal the conviction, get it overturned, but now its the prosecution which has embarked on a year-long reinvestigation of the case and they say theres major reasons to doubt the conviction itself. they are citing the up reliability of cell phone data at the time and citing advances in dna testing that were not available at the time of the trial and mo...

It is not a secret that Chinese authorities have been carrying out mass DNA testing across Tibet to create a gene pool to police the ordinary Tibetans. However, according to reports, the Chinese regime has kicked up its operation a few notches up in the last few weeks.

A new hearing is scheduled Monday for Adnan Syed.

"The world of criminal justice as changed dramatically. And its causing us to have to review a lot of these guilty pleas or convictions," Leyton said.

Prosecutors in Baltimore filed a motion to vacate the conviction against Adnan Syed.

Least ten states. it is now a crime for a doctor to use any donor material without the patients explicit consent. there is a federal bill on the table. >> it would allow them to prosecute a doctor with a maximum of a ten-year prison sentence. >> how difficult is it to get legislation passed? >> critics and the industry, they dont want regulations because they are just operating so smoothly at this point. >> i really do believe that commercial dna testing has fix this problem. a doctor probably w...