Emily Witty, a spokeswoman for town of Baltimore's state's lawyer's workplace, mentioned in an e mail that her workplace had dropped its case towards Syed and would launch additional particulars about its determination in a while Tuesday.
Laura Nirider, a co-director of the Centre on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Pritzker Faculty of Regulation, who accompanied Syed when he walked out of jail final month, earlier tweeted in regards to the case.
"Breaking information: After the most recent spherical of DNA testing generated outcomes that, like earlier rounds of testing, excluded Adnan Syed, he has now been formally exonerated," she wrote.
A Baltimore decide final month overturned Syed's homicide conviction and ordered him launched from jail, the place the 41-year-old had spent greater than 20 years.
Circuit Decide Melissa Phinn additionally gave prosecutors 30 days during which to determine whether or not to retry Syed or drop the costs.
Phinn dominated that the state had violated its authorized obligation to share proof that might have bolstered Syed's defence. After his launch, Syed was positioned on residence detention with GPS location monitoring.
Lee's household had requested Maryland's intermediate appellate court docket to halt the case.
Lawyer Steve Kelly mentioned Lee's household will not be difficult Syed's launch, however as a substitute wished the decide to carry one other listening to that the household can attend in-person and deal with the court docket — Lee's brother Younger Lee appeared by way of videoconference on brief discover through the earlier listening to. The lawyer didn't have an instantaneous touch upon Tuesday.
Final week, state Lawyer-Basic Brian Frosh's workplace filed court docket papers supporting the enchantment by Lee's household.
Syed has maintained his innocence for many years and captured the eye of thousands and thousands in 2014 when the debut season of Serial centered on the case and raised doubts about a number of the proof, together with cellphone tower knowledge.
Prosecutors have beforehand mentioned that a reinvestigation of the case revealed proof concerning the attainable involvement of two alternate suspects. The 2 suspects might have been concerned individually or collectively, the state's lawyer's workplace mentioned.
One of many suspects had threatened Lee, saying "he would make her disappear. He would kill her," in accordance with a court docket submitting.
The suspects have been recognized individuals on the time of the unique investigation and weren't correctly dominated out nor disclosed to the defence, prosecutors mentioned.
Prosecutors additionally mentioned new data revealed that one of many suspects was convicted of attacking a girl in her car, and that one of many suspects was convicted of participating in serial rape and sexual assault.
Prosecutors additionally famous unreliable cellphone knowledge used throughout Syed's court docket case to corroborate his whereabouts on the day of the crime.
The discover on the information particularly suggested that the billing places for incoming calls "wouldn't be thought-about dependable data for location".
Syed served greater than 20 years in jail for the strangling of Lee, who was 18 on the time. Her physique was discovered weeks later buried in a Baltimore park.