(CNN) The killing of Adnan Saeed is the focus of a very popular "continuous" podcast in the first season, close to a new trial. However, this is not necessarily a completed transaction.
On Thursday, the Court of Appeals for Maryland ordered Syed's new trial involving a decision of 2-1. It will maintain a lower court likewise governed in 2016.
Prosecutors take 30 days to appeal to the State's Supreme Court or to implement a new trial
"He is very happy, he is very happy," lawyer C Justin Brown told CNN. "He has been waiting for this for 18 years."
The Maryland Attorney General Office may be attractive, but "I am considering today's decision to decide next," said a spokesperson Raquel Combs.
Said of 36 years old was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing former girlfriend Haimin Lee. A month after she disappeared in January 1999, her necked body was found in a shallow tomb of the park.
The prosecutor depended on his friend Jay Wilds' testimony. He said that Syed helped pierce for Lee 's body. To confirm his statement, the prosecutor provided mobile phone records and expert witness testimonies and placed Sayed in the place Li was buried.
In 2016, the judge of the Baltimore Circuit Court revoked Said's conviction and ordered a new trial on the grounds that Saide's lawyers did not interrogate the credibility of the expert witness's evidence of the cell tower position .
Brown is optimistic that they will receive a new trial. He said that the country hopes to abandon its appeal and try to reconsider the incident.
Brown told CNN as to whether Syed will be bailed out before the new trial: "This is what we are considering to review."
The first season of "serial" podcasts, including 12 episodes of the case, was downloaded more than 40 million times in 2014.
Prior to his trial, Saeed gave his attorney two letters from Asian McLean, one of them said she saw Sayed in the library when a murder occurred.
Her account did not enter into defense and Syed demanded an invalid lawyer because she could not contact her.
On Thursday's decision, the two judges of the Special Court of Appeal agreed with the merits of invalid attorney's arguments, but the opposite judge sometimes did not contact the potential witness that the attorney was not on the crime scene Legitimate He said there are reasons.
"Podcast" serial "exploded in iTunes in 2015 and revisited the closed Baltimore murder case. The theme of the series, Adnan Syed, was awarded a new trial by the Maryland State Second High Court in March. The main reason for this decision was that she did not call a witness called Asia McLean, she said she saw the Said murder case of the day at the local library. Her ex-boyfriend, 17-year-old Adnan Saeed, was finally accused of killing - after anonymous advice, the detective chased him as a suspect. The prosecutor said that Saide murdered her because of jealousy after discovering that he was dating someone. There is no physical evidence linking Syed with crime, but witnesses have confirmed that Syed helped to bury her body. Said never admitted to kill Lee
For these series of Sarah Koenig who are familiar with podcast dance, this week's news may have told you that Adnan Syed will receive a new trial after the podcast's first season theme, Adnan Syed, a successful attraction not. The second half of the first quarter helped confirm the appeal process of Saeed. His lawyer, Christina Gutierrez, failed Said. There is no compelling evidence about the case outlined by firm innocent Sayed and Koenig, this second shot must be the result of an internationally acquired incident in his affair, the Maryland state justice system . It certainly will not be ignored