Last week, in a motion to vacate that Koenig in Tuesday’s episode said “burst like a firework out of the prosecutors' office,” the Baltimore City state’s attorney said “the state no longer has confidence in the integrity of the conviction” though stopped short of exonerating Syed.
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“From the outside at least, it’s hard to satisfyingly pinpoint the impact that Serial and, later, HBO’s show had on the events that led to Syed walking out of prison yesterday,” CJR’s Jon Allsop wrote Tuesday, as “they raised and then kept huge public attention on his case in a way that can’t easily be separated from the progress of the case itself, and yet the vacating of his sentence took years, and ultimately flowed from a new law and an official procedure.” Syed, Koenig said, appeared to be keeping his expectations low throughout. It's true there have been a number of developments in Syed’s case in the years since Serial, which discovered, among other things, the existence of an alibi witness whom Syed’s original defense had failed to contact and that physical evidence gathered at the time was never tested for Syed’s DNA an HBO show would later reveal that Syed’s DNA was not found on Lee’s body or belongings. So even on a day when the government publicly recognizes its own mistakes, it's hard to feel cheered about a triumph of fairness, because we’ve built a system that takes more than 20 years to self correct-and that’s just this one case.” “But most of what the state put in that motion to vacate, all the actual evidence, was either known or knowable to cops and prosecutors back in 1999. "Yesterday, there was a lot of talk about fairness,” she said in the final moments of Tuesday morning's episode. It was far from a celebration of the podcast's influence in making Syed a national figure, with Koenig and others reacting to Monday's development as a devastating reminder of how many times the system had failed in Syed's case.
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“The original Serial series might be the most impactful (by a number of measures) piece of journalism of the last decade,” journalist Wesley Lowery tweeted Monday, following Syed's release.īut Koenig's message in the supplement of her inaugural true-crime podcast series took a more somber tone. Her reporting and the investigative true-crime series from the people behind This American Life gained a cult following, shattering records and invigorating the podcast industry. When the verdict came down, Serial tweeted immediately that its host Sarah Koenig, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who became a quasi-celebrity for dissecting Syed's case over a dozen episodes in 2014, was in the courtroom. A Baltimore judge vacated the conviction in light of state prosecutors saying they no longer have confidence in the case against him. Its subject, Adnan Syed, who for the past 23 years was serving a life sentence for the murder of his former high-school girlfriend Hae Min Lee, was released from prison Monday.
On Tuesday, for the first time in years, there was a new episode of podcast Serial season one.
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