Testimony turns to security cameras in Adnan Syed hearing

Asia McClain Chapman, a high school classmate of Syed, testified that Syed’s former lawyer, Cristina Gutierrez, who died in 2004, never contacted her about a potential alibi.

She wrote letters to Syed upon hearing of his arrest back in 1999, but the state is arguing that one of them may have been fabricated.

After Syed was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a reporter, Sarah Koenig, created the podcast Serial.

An attorney has told a judge that a witness who could have provided an alibi for the convicted killer at the center of the popular “Serial” podcast would have been “critical” in the man’s first trial, had she been contacted by his original defense team.

Lee’s slaying was the subject of “Serial” which began in October 2014 and was released by Chicago public radio station WBEZ.

The podcast raised doubts about Syed’s conviction and has been downloaded tens of millions of times.

The hearing will weigh potential evidence that was not used in previous proceedings or may have been misinterpreted, and the court could order a new trial.

Adnan Syed enters Courthouse East in Baltimore prior to a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016 in Baltimore.

Adnan Syed, who rose to fame when his trial and conviction for the murder of a teenage girl in 1999 was spotlighted in the first season of the hit Serial podcast, is back in court this week seeking a new trial.

Leakin Park crime scene, 1999. She said she talked with Syed until around 2:40 PM, the time prosecutors believed that Lee was being buried.

That unnamed expert has not yet testified in the post-conviction hearing, but a different specialist did this week.

Last week we learnt that Adnan Syed had been granted a retrial.

ABC2 News said that McClain was cross-examined in court.

Mr Brown, he said, will only be able to make limited arguments in court. However, Hamiel also said the footage was erased every month. “I could never imagine that we could’ve gotten this far”.

But the day ended with Fitzgerald still on the stand; he’ll be back next week. When he granted the hearing last November, he said it would “be in the interests of justice”.

McClain told the Baltimore Sun past year that she has “no doubt” about when and where she saw Syed.

Asia McClain, now known as Asia Chapman, testified Wednesday that she had a conversation with Syed at the library during the time prosecutors say Lee was killed. Despite McClain coming off “very well”, Koenig says she gets a sense of the way the prosecution will try to question her story during cross-examination Thursday.

In a lengthy cross-examination, however, he appeared momentarily flummoxed when Syed’s attorney showed him records that indicated that a single caller purportedly had managed to travel between Woodlawn, a Baltimore suburb where the murder occurred, and Washington DC which should be an hour away, in less than half that time. He was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison.