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BALTIMORE (AP) — Here's the latest on the hearing for Adnan Syed, the convicted killer at the center of the "Serial" podcast who is asking a judge for a new trial. The hearing began last Wednesday and is now in its fourth day.
5 p.m.
The state and the defense rested their cases after four days of testimony in a hearing for the man convicted of the killing at the center of the "Serial" podcast.
Adnan Syed, now 35, was convicted of killing his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 2000. He is asking for a new trial on the grounds that his attorney was ineffective by failing to contact an alibi witness, and that cell tower data given to jurors linking Syed to the burial site was misleading.
The final witness to take the stand was a security officer who told prosecutors that there were no cameras in the library where Asia McClain, now Chapman, said she saw Syed at the same time Lee was killed. He also said he didn't remember seeing Syed there that day.
But during cross-examination, the officer admitted that he "can't remember clearly" who he saw, and that there could have been security cameras that he didn't know about.
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12:30 p.m.
An attorney says a defense attorney who represented the man convicted of the killing at the center of the "Serial" podcast had an obligation to track down a witness who could have provided an alibi.
That witness says she saw Adnan Syed at the library around the same time prosecutors say his girlfriend was murdered.
Monday marks the fourth day of a hearing for Syed, who was convicted in 2000 of killing Hae Min Lee. The hearing is to determine whether Syed deserves a new trial because his original attorney didn't contact that alibi witness.
During cross-examination, Deputy Attorney General Thiru Vignarajah asked attorney David Irwin whether it is the attorney's duty to investigate a witness even if he or she is "gossipy" and could hurt the defendant.
Irwin said a defense attorney must investigate all potential alibi witnesses.
11 a.m.
An FBI agent says cell tower data records originally entered into evidence in the trial of the man convicted of the killing at the center of the popular podcast "Serial" were accurate, as was testimony from an AT&T radio frequency expert.
Special Agent Chad Fitzgerald took the stand Monday to finish his testimony in a hearing for Adnan Syed, who was convicted in 2000 of murdering Hae Min Lee. The hearing will determine whether Syed deserves a new trial.
His attorneys have argued that his lawyer was ineffective because she didn't contact an alibi witness, and that cell tower data presented to jurors that linked Syed to the burial site where Lee's body was found was misleading. They say that's because it did not include an instructions sheet on how to read it. Defense attorney Justin Brown last week presented an affidavit signed by the technician that said his testimony would have been different had he seen the sheet.
Fitzgerald said despite the affidavit, the technician's testimony was true, and that the data was accurate.
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