Suter’s request went to Becky Feldman, chief of the sentencing review unit for the prosector’s office. 2, 2021, one day after the law went into effect, Syed’s attorney, Erica Suter, delivered his case to the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office.Ī new prosecutor takes another look at the case Syed was 17 when he was arrested for killing Lee. It allows those who have spent at least 20 years in prison for a crime they committed when they were a juvenile to ask to court to reduce their sentence. Koenig also says that the prosecutor’s office did not set out to take down Syed’s case, and that “it just kind of crumbled once they took a hard look.”Ībout a year ago, Maryland enacted the Juvenile Restoration Act. This wasn’t an honest conviction,'” as Koenig reports. We relied on evidence we shouldn’t have, and we broke the rules when we prosecuted. Rather, “they’re saying, back in 1999, we didn’t investigate this case thoroughly enough. While Syed has been released from prison and placed under home detention, prosecutors are not exonerating him.

Prosecutors are not saying Adnan Syed is innocent