Maryland's highest court denied a new trial Friday for a man whose murder conviction was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.”
In a 4-3 opinion, the Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that Adnan Syed's legal counsel was deficient in failing to investigate an alibi witness, but it disagreed that the deficiency prejudiced the case. The court said Syed waived his ineffective counsel claim.
In 2016, a lower court ordered a retrial for Syed on grounds that his attorney, Cristina Gutierrez, who died in 2004, didn't contact an alibi witness and provided ineffective counsel. The state appealed. The special appeals court upheld the lower court's ruling last year and the state appealed that decision, too.
The appeals court found that McClain's account focused on “a narrow window of time in the afternoon” of the day Lee disappeared. It said her testimony wouldn't have rebutted the state's evidence about Syed's actions that evening, and at best “would have highlighted Mr. Syed's failure to account precisely for his whereabouts after school” that day.
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