BALTIMORE — Evidence in the murder case against Adnan Syed could get a new look with the support of Baltimore prosecutors, marking the latest development in a two-decade legal saga that gripped the nation after it was highlighted in the hit podcast “Serial.”
Baltimore prosecutors signed onto a motion with Syed’s attorney Thursday, asking a judge to order the Baltimore City Police Lab to retest using the latest DNA technology certain items collected as evidence in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, who was strangled to death and discovered in a clandestine grave in Leakin Park.
Syed’s attorney and Baltimore prosecutors agreed that Lee’s clothing and shoes, as well as hairs recovered around her body and other pieces of evidence not specified, should be tested with DNA technology that was not available for Syed’s trials — DNA analysis that’s now regularly used by law enforcement to identify or exclude suspects, according to their motion.
