Lawyers’ group asks Supreme Court to review ‘Serial’ case

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FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2016 file photo, Adnan Syed enters Courthouse East in Baltimore prior to a hearing. Lawyers for Syed, convicted of murder in a case chronicled on the podcast "Serial," have filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

BALTIMORE – The National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers has asked the Supreme Court to review the case of a Maryland man convicted in a case chronicled on the podcast “Serial.”

News outlets report the group filed an amicus brief in the case of Adnan Syed.

The brief says Syed was not given a proper opportunity to investigate an unbiased and credible alibi witness.

It also says the decision by Maryland’s highest court to deny Syed a new trial and reinstate his conviction in the murder of his ex-girlfriend will impact criminal defendants “far beyond Maryland’s borders.”

Syed’s lawyer during the trial, Cristina Gutierrez, failed to contact a woman who said she saw Syed at a library at the time prosecutors say he strangled his ex-girlfriend in 1999.

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This story has been corrected to show that the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers filed the amicus brief, not attorneys for Syed.

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