NewDNA evidencehas been requested in the case of Adnan Syed , a gentleman from Maryland presently serving a life judgment of conviction for the murder of ex - girlfriend Hae Min Lee . The test , arrange for by a judge , will utilize DNA engineering science unavailable at the time of Syed ’s first trials in 1999 and 2000 .

The execution , as presented at the metre of Syed ’s conviction , is said to have involved a battle in a gondola . The question for novel forensic investigation centers around this , as Syed ’s lawyer has carry that the killer would have needed to be very close-fitting to the victim , and so a detectable degree of DNA transfer is to be expected .

" Ms. Lee ’s clothing , shoes , and certain other evidence convalesce from the scene have not been subject to DNA testing,“CNN reportsthe movement said . " ( Syed ) seeks to use the most modern DNA examination methodologies that are currently available to psychoanalyse the biologic evidence accumulate from the scene in an crusade to exculpate him . "

Baltimore police have 15 solar day to compile the necessary cloth and deliver it to the Forensic Analytical Crime Lab in Hayward , California , for testing . These will then go through CODIS , the FBI ’s criminal justice DNA database , reportsThe Philadelphia Inquirer .

While the precise tests will be decide by the criminal offense lab , Syed ’s attorney Erica J Suter has requested touch deoxyribonucleic acid analysis – so named as it only call for a person to have pertain an object to be notice via cutis cells or bodily fluids . Suter has also asked investigators to establish if a DNA profile can be identified and agree to a someone .

Forensic depth psychology of fingernail newspaper clipping , blood , and a condom was stockpile out at the time of the murder – but while none had detectable traces of Syed , it was n’t considered to be exculpatory evidence .

Adnan Syed has been the subject area of much debate conform to the staggeringly popular podcast seriesSerial , which saw diarist Sarah Koenig investigate proceeding leading up to and follow the execution of Min Lee .

Syed first total under police scrutiny as he had antecedently dated Min Lee , whose body was found in Leakin Park , Baltimore , onFebruary 9 , 1999 . An anon. call was made to detective Daryl Massey on February 12 , saying that Syed should be under investigation . He was later apprehend on February 28 .

Syed was found shamed following a six - week tryout in 2000 , following a short mistrial in 1999 . Multiple attempts   at a retrial were made following Koenig ’s podcast which was downloaded more than 300 million time . However , none were successful in work it to tribunal .

desoxyribonucleic acid examination in criminal cases was first introduced in1985 , enable forensic scientists to use tegument , hair , blood , and other bodily fluids as a way of identifying a sealed mortal ’s prescence at the scene of a offence . The first someone to be convict through deoxyribonucleic acid grounds was Tommie Lee Andrews , a serial raper from Florida .

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