The court is weighing whether to redo the hearing that led to the conviction being vacated, after the victim's brother asserted he wasn't given proper notice.
, Syed’s lawyers noted that after the conviction was vacated, prosecutors had dropped the charges against Syed — meaning Syed is no longer a defendant in a criminal case. They called the Lee family’s move to redo the hearing “unprecedented” in how it posited a victim’s family member as a party in the matter.“Victims do not prosecute charges, they do not decide which witnesses to call, and they do not cross-examine those witnesses,” Syed’s lawyers wrote.
Syed, then 17, was arrested in February 1999 for Hae Min Lee’s killing. Authorities said the 18-year-old, who Syed had once dated, had been strangled. Syed was convicted of murder in 2000 and sentenced to life behind bars. Lee has said he was not against more investigation. “Knowing that there could be someone out there free for killing my sister — it’s tough,” he said., has said that she understood Lee’s brother’s feelings, but that Syed was entitled to fairness in the criminal justice system.
In the appeals proceedings, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office sided mostly with the Lee family. In a filing, lawyers for the office wrote that there should be a new hearing about vacating the conviction, while noting that the family did not have the right “to present evidence, call witnesses, and challenge the state’s evidence and witnesses.”
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