Retired Baltimore Circuit Judge Wanda Keyes Heard wrote that a reading of the trial transcript shows the verdict in the case was “supported by substantial direct and circumstantial evidence.”
A Baltimore County judge on Thursday said he would sign an order allowing three people to sign checks for the Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, preventing the firm’s bank accounts from being frozen.
Leslie Vass was awarded under the same act that will allow Adnan Syed, whose case was chronicled in the podcast “Serial,” to seek about $2 million for the more than 20 years that he spent in prison.
Attorneys for the family of Hae Min Lee have 15 days to submit arguments for why the courts should not dismiss their appeal of an order last month that released Adnan Syed from prison.
Baltimore prosecutors said newly performed DNA tests on the shoes of the murdered Hae Min Lee found a mixture of DNA from multiple people — none of them Adnan Syed.
Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has stated that prosecutors do not decide guilt or innocence but leave it up to a judge or jury to make that determination.
Marcellus Walls, 19, of Washington, D.C., had been facing charges of attempted first- and second-degree murder, using a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, reckless endangerment and related offenses.