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言语战争:马里兰州AG Brian Frosh,Marilyn Mosby Spar的证据,导致Adnan Syed释放

巴尔的摩州的检察官玛丽莲·莫斯比(Marilyn Mosby)指责马里兰州的总检察长布莱恩·弗罗什(Brian Frosh)隐藏了证据,以使阿德南·赛义德(Adnan Syed)入狱,这是该州周三在该州的两名最强大的民选律师之间的嘲笑。

Syed, whose case became known internationally after the podcast “Serial” was released in 2014, was convicted of murder in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, his former high school girlfriend. He was behind bars for 23 years until Monday, when a judge vacated his conviction and ordered Syed released on home detention after supposedly new evidence about alternative suspects in the case was brought to light.

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“I think Attorney General Brian Frosh needs to speak to his office’s willful decision to sit on exculpatory evidence for the last seven years,” Mosby said in a statement Wednesday. “His inability to uphold this fundamental obligation denied Mr. Syed his right to a fair trial and now forces a family to relive an unimaginable nightmare because of his unconscionable misdeeds.”

The Baltimore prosecutors moved last week to vacate Syed’s conviction after a June review of the original assistant state’s attorney’s handwritten notes revealed two alternative suspects in the homicide, at least one of whom was never disclosed to the defense before Syed’s trial, prosecutors wrote in court documents. One of the suspects, according to prosecutors’ filings, threatened to harm Lee.

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莫斯比(Mosby)的强烈声明在两个民主党人之间来到了三天的曲折,并在弗罗什(Frosh)之后,在电视采访中星期三早上,他周一提出的声明翻了一番,谴责他的办公室做错了什么。

“我与我交谈的人,我们的办公室已经说了笔记是制作的,但更重要的是,我不得不说,我们把它们交给了她。那是她首先得到他们的地方。75岁的弗罗什(Frosh)告诉电视台。

Adnan Syed leaves the courthouse after being released from prison.

The city state’s attorney’s office prosecuted Syed, secured his 2000 murder conviction and stood behind the guilty finding for years as the attorney general’s office represented the state in fighting off Syed’s numerous appeals.

Syed现任律师Erica Suter说,直到六月,莫斯比办公室成员将他们送给她,她才从未见过有关其他嫌疑人的笔记。未能透露证据表明一个人的纯真被称为“布雷迪”违规行为,尤其严重,因为它影响了一个人的公正审判权。

As Mosby spoke at a news conference Monday evening after her office successfully argued for Syed’s conviction to be overturned, she accused the original prosecutors on Syed’s case and the attorney general’s office of misconduct.

莫斯比说:“原始检察官或原始案件档案中仍在的总检察长办公室向辩护律师提供任何信息。”

莫斯比说这句话后,几乎立即发表了一份声明,要求她提出要求。

弗罗什(Frosh)当时说:“撤离动议的其他严重问题,与布雷迪违法有关的指控是不正确的。”“州检察官莫斯比(Mosby)和她办公室中的任何人都没有咨询起诉该案的助理州检察官,也没有与我办公室中有关这些涉嫌违法行为的任何人进行咨询。在这种情况下,该文件已多次提供给辩方。”

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It could be difficult to determine who’s correct between Frosh and Mosby. Syed’s defense attorney at trial, Cristina Gutierrez, died in 2004. A series of lawyers have represented Syed since then in post-conviction matters.

根据宣誓书的说法,该文件的文件占据了17箱,以支持推翻助理州检察官贝基·费尔德曼(Becky Feldman)周一在法庭上提交的赛义德(Syed)的定罪。

费尔德曼写道:“我了解许多年来,许多律师和倡导者已经审查了文件或部分文件的部分。”“我对文件的哪些部分没有个人知识。我也不知道为什么以前没有发现这些文件。”

Feldman wrote in the affidavit that she does not have “personal knowledge as to how and where the state’s attorney’s trial file was maintained from 1999 through the time it was delivered to the attorney general’s office.”

莫斯比(Mosby)是一个担任州检察官两个任期的民主党人,在7月失去了第三任期的出价。根据法官周一的命令,她的办公室有30天的时间来确定是重试赛义德还是放弃指控。

自2015年以来,现年41岁的赛义德(Syed)对他的定罪提出上诉,总检察长办公室一直在Syed案中拥有原始审判和调查档案。在马里兰州,总检察长办公室是上诉程序中的起诉,并适用了相同的披露证据规则。

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Frosh’s office declined to comment further about his earlier statements. He did not run for reelection and will leave office in January.

Neither agency is releasing a copy of the notes, but city prosecutors in a court filing said the handwriting is hard to read.

费尔德曼(Feldman)在周一在法庭上的宣誓书中写道:“手写与整个(州检察官办公室)审判档案中的其他手写文件一致。”

Frosh also suggested Mosby filed the motion to free Syed to distract from her upcoming federal perjury and mortgage fraud trial.

“时机的外观,我要说的是不寻常的,”弗罗什告诉电视台。

Mosby has denied her trial had anything to do with the timing of her office’s Syed filing, calling the federal charges against her “bogus” in an appearance on CNN Wednesday morning.

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两届民主国家律师被控两项伪证罪和两项抵押欺诈罪,与她从2020年从城市退休帐户提取的撤回有关,以购买两个佛罗里达度假屋。莫斯比案中的陪审团审理定于上周四开始SYED运动已提交。联邦法官最终推迟莫斯比的审判直到三月由于专家证人披露问题。


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