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他的信念被推翻了,“串行”主题阿德南·赛义德(Adnan Syed)被置于家庭拘留所。这就是他允许做的。

在巴尔的摩巡回法院法官周一推翻了阿德南·赛德(Adnan Syed)的谋杀罪后,她下令将他从拘留所获释,并被一家私人公司监督的家庭拘留所。

Judge Melissa Phinn outlined exactly what Syed, who is still charged in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, is allowed to do while city prosecutors determine in the next month whether to retry the 41-year-old in his high school ex-girlfriend’s death or drop the charges.

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赛义德(Syed)受到警报公司的监督,这是在马里兰州经营的少数私人拘留公司之一。根据Phinn的命令,赛义德被允许离开他在巴尔的摩县的家中做以下事情:

  • Work or seek employment.
  • Meet with his lawyer.
  • Attend “personal or family medical appointments.”
  • Meet with ALERT personnel.

The precise terms of Syed’s home detention give more context to hiscomparatively dignified release from custody Monday,紧随其后city prosecutors’ move to vacate his conviction.

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Prosecutors are not ready to say that Syed is innocent, but cited the results of an approximately yearlong review of the case, conducted alongside his defense attorney, in asking for the conviction to be undone.

The probe, prosecutors said, revealed two alternative suspects in Lee’s killing, known to authorities who investigated the homicide but not disclosed to Syed’s defense then or thereafter. City prosecutors said the lack of disclosure was a serious violation of the law, and prevented Syed from getting a fair trial. Along with since-discredited evidence used against Syed at trial, prosecutors said the issues raised were enough to doubt the integrity of his guilty finding.

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, whose office represented the state in Syed’s various appeals, disputed that information was withheld from the defense within hours of Syed’s conviction being overturned. His public comments about the case have triggereda pointed and public back-and-forth with Mosby.

In their motion, Mosby’s prosecutors requested Syed be released pending their decision on how to proceed.

In court Monday, Phinn agreed.

She ordered Syed released immediately: Officers unshackled him in her courtroom and attached a GPS ankle monitor before he descended the steps of the Elijah E. Cummings Courthouse to cheers from supporters who likely came to know of his case from the hit podcast “Serial,” released in 2014 and downloaded hundreds of millions of times.

The monitor strapped to Syed’s ankle came from ALERT, the private home detention company.

Founded in 1985, the business’s website boasts that it tracks clients “with far more security than the traditional probation system.” The company says it collaborates with the court to determine what activities a person ordered on home detention is allowed to do, and notifies the judge who assigned home detention if the person violates the terms of their release.

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与马里兰州公共安全和惩教服务部监督的家庭拘留不同,私人住宅拘留者必须为此付费。马里兰州法律说,该州应搁置联邦资金,以支付房屋拘留符合资格但负担不起律师的人的拘留。

Reached briefly by phone, Tim Schlauch, ALERT’s president and executive director, did not comment. He could not be reached later.

国家机构发言人马克·韦尔纳雷利(Mark Vernarelli)在一封电子邮件中说,私人家庭拘留公司已获得州矫正部门的许可,马里兰州惩教标准委员会至少每两年审核一次。

The companies “must also submit certain information and reports to the courts,” Vernarelli said.

With his conviction overturned, Syed, who has maintained his innocence since he was 17 years old, finds himself in an unusual legal-limbo: Free from jail or prison for the first time in 23 years, yet still facing the charges — premeditated murder, kidnapping, robbery and false imprisonment — that put him behind bars to begin with.

Phinn set a deadline of 30 days from her ruling Monday for prosecutors to drop the charges or set a new trial date. The state’s attorney’s office said its decision is contingent upon an ongoing investigation into the alternative suspects as well as additional DNA testing, ordered in March, of evidence collected in Lee’s death.

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根据法律,赛义德(Syed)是被控谋杀案的人,等待审判。几位法律专家说,在审判中,审判的暴力犯罪审判的人几乎从未在审判前发布。

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“I’ve had people released on murder charges pretrial, but it’s rare,” said attorney Andrew I. Alperstein. “But there’s nothing ordinary about his case in the posture it’s in at this point.”

Alperstein was one of five defense attorneys who reviewed the order for The Baltimore Sun. The lawyers said the order for home detention was fairly standard, if a little lenient.

辩护律师唐纳德·赖特(Donald Wright)说,过去的法官允许他的客户从事现有工作。

赖特说:“我从未见过他们能够离开,只是去找工作。”

He described the last conditions of Phinn’s order in Syed’s case as “unusual.”

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At the discretion of ALERT, Phinn’s order said, Syed is allowed to have no more than four hours of “personal time” a week for “shopping, banking and personal hygiene and grooming.” Such errands must be coordinated ahead of time with ALERT.

“No window shopping is permitted,” Phinn’s order said.

Adnan Syed had his murder conviction overturned and was released after prosecutors raised doubts about his guilty finding because of the revelation of alternative suspects in the homicide and unreliable evidence used against him at trial.

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