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Prison s injustice initiative. sayed spent 23 years behind bars for the killing of his ex-girlfriend. it contained international attention after the serial podcast. he was exonerated after dna of her shoes and clothing ruled him out. the initiative on the georgetown addresses root causes of mass incarceration and offers educational programs to insaeuts. syed also hopes to attend law school. infamous french serial killer is now walking free. charles was released from prison in nepal friday and is now back in france, according to afp. the 79-year-old was serving a life sentence for killing two tourists in 1975 but many of his alleged murders remain unsolved. his story inspired the award-nominated series the per sent. he was released because he has heart disease and needs open ....
About all the unreliable evidence in the podcast, which was taken into the courtroom, so that is the direction of travel there? but they lost in the courtroom. that is the important thing to understand, the state of maryland s highest court of appeal rejected arguments put forth. amazingly, but not surprisingly, i say amazingly because from the perspective of a layman but not surprisingly from the perspective of a lawyer, the high court found that syed s lawyer at trial was incompetent, but basically, that he had waived certain claims by not raising them earlier. she was incompetent, because she failed to examine an alibi witness but they said the guilt was overwhelming against him, and that syed waived his claim that cell tower evidence was faulty and could not have properly linked him to this case. so they found. ....
Disturbed, except disturbed unless there was something extraordinary, and they did not find this extraordinary. let me ask you then, how frequent do you think these sorts of, if i can put it, miscarriages ofjustice are? is this a major, widespread, fundamental problem in the states, or are these just one offs? i think it is a major problem. i ve seen it, there are too many stories of this that do not get reversed, because basically procedural roadblocks are put in place to allow for, to allow, to prevent appellate courts from looking at the things that could clear somebody, but really, but for this podcast casting light on this, and again, notwithstanding the podcast, syed lost in court. it was with the change of administration and finally re examining or examining dna evidence, that cleared him and now, the state s attorney, the local baltimore prosecutor, is going to file a motion ....
But they lost in the courtroom. that is the important thing to understand, the state of maryland s highest court of appeal rejected arguments put forth. amazingly, but not surprisingly, i say amazingly, because from the perspective of a layman but not surprisingly from the perspective of a lawyer, the high court found that syed s lawyer at trial was incompetent, but basically, that he had waived certain claims by not raising them earlier. she was incompetent, because she failed to examine an alibi witness but they said the guilt was overwhelming against him, and that syed waived his claim that cell tower evidence was faulty and could not have properly linked him to this case. so they found. but they excused all that and excused prosecutors because in this country, a jury verdict is considered sacrosanct, it s believed, it s not to be ....