The Adnan Syed case has delivered us to a strange place: A chief prosecutor, who happens to be under federal indictment for perjury, suddenly asks a judge to overturn the conviction of a man in a high-profile murder case from 23 years ago. Defending her decision, the prosecutor accuses a respected state attorney general of intentionally covering up evidence of the convicted man’s possible innocence. Taken aback, the AG questions the prosecutor’s decision to move ahead and drop the murder charge, setting the man free. The original prosecutor also raises a serious question about the decision to throw out the conviction. Then the judge who presided at the trial says the guilty verdict was solid.
All this in public — at news conferences, in court filings — while the rest of us watch and scratch our heads, wondering, yet again, what the truth is about Hae Min Lee’s murder.
What a confusing spectacle.
