"... when it was turned into the hit first season of the podcast 'Serial.'
The state’s attorney for Baltimore City said in a motion filed Wednesday in circuit court that a nearly yearlong investigation, conducted with the defense, found new evidence, including information concerning the possible involvement of two alternative suspects.
Prosecutors are requesting Mr. Syed be given a new trial. They said they weren’t asserting that Mr. Syed is innocent. 'However, for all the reasons set forth below, the State no longer has confidence in the integrity of the conviction,' said the office of Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, which is overseeing the reinvestigation. The office is recommending Mr. Syed be released on his own recognizance pending the continuing investigation...."
The Wall Street Journal reports.
Top comment over there: "This is the same Marylin Mosby that indicted several Baltimore cops for murder and failed to get a conviction. The same person who was caught cheating on taxes or a mortgage application. Now she wants to release a convicted murderer while their retrial takes place and no definitive suspect has been identified...."
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She wants to be Fetterman's running mate when he tries for the White House.
Baltimore is currently one of the most unlivable cities in the US, which puts it around the level of some cities in El Salvador or Brazil or Mexico. You know- those countries who's people are walking across our border as I write this. I don't actually blame them for wanting to come here. I hope they don't end up in Baltimore, however. They will be sorely disappointed.
There is a hefty and immediate need to clean out a number of DAs and State's Attorneys around the US. Our cities have become lower than 3rd world. Civil Society has left many of these places. It's no joke and it's time the nation- all of us- screamed in unison and took some action on it.
Not the sharpest crayon in the box--but she's the right color. So there is that. And it counts for something in Baltimore.
the office of Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby
That expression does not make sense.
"I won in court but lost in the court of public opinion. Can I have a do-over? I promise to fail to secure a conviction this time!"
Looks like we are tossing #StopAsianHate into the #MeToo bin.
As expected.
It was pretty clear that Mr. Syed's due process rights were not honored nor that the state's version of how it happened made any sense. He may have killed Ms. Lee, but the standards of how we get to a murder conviction should be higher.
Sure, let him out. And Chain him to Mosby.
One question: how were the cops really led to the body? The answer to that is the answer to the murder.
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby
definition of AA hire
Wowser. Pretty shocked about this. Looking forward to finding out more. However, we may never find out anything. Sounds like a good chance they'll release him and just never re-try.
wait a minute! i see their plan!
they think he'll be MUCH EASIER to convict, on the new murders he'll commit while out on the streets
The podcast was riveting. Part of what made it so good is that the evidence was pretty well balanced; you couldn't quite rule out that he might have done it, but you couldn't quite shake the conclusion that he didn't. Did not seem to meet proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt standard.
Given the ambiguities, extremely difficult to imagine they can make a more compelling case 23 years after the crime.
"This is the same Marylin Mosby that indicted several Baltimore cops for murder and failed to get a conviction. The same person who was caught cheating on taxes or a mortgage application. Now she wants to release a convicted murderer while their retrial takes place and no definitive suspect has been identified...."
Given how rarely prosecutors anywhere in the US will actually ask for anyone convicted of serious crimes to be freed due to questions about the guilt of the convicted--due to the horror of prosecutors at admitting their offices might ever get it wrong--that Ms. Mosby would do so in this case is extraordinary, and is almost tantamount to her office admitting the prisoner in question is probably not guilty.
You denigrate her for indicting several Baltimore cops for murder and failing to get convictions. This may not be a reason to doubt either her competence, (though it may), or the actual guilt of the police officers. Baltimore is notorious for its corrupt and brutal police department, but juries nationwide, too credulous by far as to the honesty and probity of police officers, are reluctant to convict police officers of most charges ever brought against them, including murder.
You also denigrate her for cheating on her taxes "or a mortgage application," (I'm unsure if you meant "and" or if you're unsure of her actual alleged improprieties.) In any case, she has not had her day in court, and, just as she tried police officers for murder who were acquitted, she may also be acquitted, (which would not necessarily mean she is actually innocent of the charges). If she is convicted, she will be punished. That she cheated on her taxes "or a mortgage application," does not, in itself, impeach her competence as a prosecutor.
Mosby was backed by Soros so she's not exactly law and order. I'd have been surprising if she would have sought a conviction if she had been the DA in the first instance. Hardly surprising that she's looking for a way to get to the same endpoint now that she is DA.
"Riveted"? I probably saw the HBO series but remember nothing about it. Maybe if Adnan were a movie star, NFL hero, and national icon.
This is fine by me.
Let democrat-run cities wallow in their own filth.
'Baltimore is currently one of the most unlivable cities in the US, which puts it around the level of some cities in El Salvador or Brazil or Mexico.'
I've never been to El Salvador or Brazil, but I have been to Mexico.
That's an insult to Mexico...
Given how rarely prosecutors anywhere in the US will actually ask for anyone convicted of serious crimes to be freed due to questions about the guilt of the convicted--due to the horror of prosecutors at admitting their offices might ever get it wrong--that Ms. Mosby would do so in this case is extraordinary, and is almost tantamount to her office admitting the prisoner in question is probably not guilty.
Seriously? Mosby is one of many Soros-backed prosecutors who are savaging the justice system at the expense of public safety. In July, she lost her primary race for reelection and this is her parting gift to the City. This issue has been litigated already and Maryland's highest court, the Court of Appeals reversed a lower court order for a new trial.
This Soros-supported crowd is but another example of the toxic poison that the lefties are spreading across the land.
- Krumhorn
Mike Sylwester said...
the office of Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby
That expression does not make sense.
Forget it Jake, it's Baltimore.
Cook: "Given how rarely prosecutors anywhere in the US will actually ask for anyone convicted of serious crimes to be freed due to questions about the guilt of the convicted--due to the horror of prosecutors at admitting their offices might ever get it wrong--that Ms. Mosby would do so in this case is extraordinary, and is almost tantamount to her office admitting the prisoner in question is probably not guilty."
LOL
Or, orrrrrrrrrrrr, Soros simply wants his Soros-funded prosecutor to release another obviously guilty perpetrator of violent crime as part of his continuing efforts to bring about the collapse of US society.....and then he can cash in. Again. As he has done elsewhere.
Podcast is owned by NYT. Major motion picture soon to announced, I’m sure. If his name was Bobby McTavish no one would have paid any attention.
I lived there for 60 years. This is the sort of thing that caused me to move a thousand miles away.
Mattman: try reading the trial transcript. The producers of Serial lacked the integrity to admit the full facts of the case or explain criminal investigations or evidence rules accurately. They decontextualized. They wanted listeners and so invented drama by manipulating timelines, equating feeling with fact, and turning a cold blooded killer into a poster boy for stupid people to root for. Not hard in America.
It would be harder for them to dehumanize the victim today because Asians are now also a specially protected group. These podcasts are all about the hierarchy of victimization -- which does not make the actual murder and loss any less horrible. But the dehumanizing would in this case need to be tweaked. More violins and Margaret Renkl thought pieces, perhaps. I bet the producers of Serial go to bed every night wishing hard that the victim had been a white woman.
The Freddy Gray case cops had bench trials. No gullible jurors involved.
Yeah, someone is dead. Maybe the guy in prison didn't do it, but the victim is dead, and I'd like to know who did. "Serial" didn't seem to care much. There's a murder victim, who is more of a victim than anyone else.
If this guy is innocent, the real story is that the crime has gone unpunished and the victim unavenged. Will the prosecutor investigate until she finds the real killer?
"That she cheated on her taxes "or a mortgage application," does not, in itself, impeach her competence as a prosecutor."
Said every enabler of a rotting, corrupt, Establishment. Jeez, Bob. I think you've topped your 'Why is Cuba poor?" disingenuousness.
"'That she cheated on her taxes "or a mortgage application," does not, in itself, impeach her competence as a prosecutor.'
"Said every enabler of a rotting, corrupt, Establishment. Jeez, Bob. I think you've topped your 'Why is Cuba poor?" disingenuousness."
Who says I'm enabling her? I'm just pointing out that she may very well be a competent prosecutor who is doing the right thing, even if she also cheated on her taxes. (How many people among those you admire or even know personally do you think have ever cheated on their taxes or committed other minor or major acts of cheating? I'd bet the answer is higher than "0," as it almost certainly is for all of us.)
The accusation is meant to impeach her decision to let the convicted party out of prison while the facts of the case are re-investigated. It does not provide a reason to object to or halt the review of the prisoner's innocence or guilt in a case in which they admit to doubt. Why would anyone gainsay a prosecutor's office who believes there is reason to doubt the outcome (or the proceedings) in a prior criminal case? Isn't this what we all want for everyone? A fair trial? A just outcome? There are hundreds of convicted persons who have been vindicated and freed in the fairly recent past due to investigations initiated outside prosecutors' offices. It's certain there are many other men and women who have been convicted of crimes of which they're innocent, historically and currently. For our own protection, everyone should applaud any decisions by prosecutors' offices to revisit prior cases due to after the fact development of doubts about the outcomes...especially as such instances are vanishingly rare.
Mike Sylwester said...
the office of Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby
That expression does not make sense.
In Maryland the officer of the court who prosecutes criminal cases in district court is called a "State's Attorney." In most other places they're called district attorneys. We have a long tradition of using stupid confusing names for ordinary things here. We also call our lower legislative body the "House of Delegates."
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