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Breaking down what the Maryland courts have found in the Adnan Syed PCR Proceeding in 4 tweets: Adnan’s trial counsel was Constitutionally deficient in both failing to contact an alibi witness and failing to use the AT&T disclaimer to question the State’s cell tower expert. 1/4 
The crux of the State’s case was not the time of Hae’s death; instead it was evidence/testimony connected to the Leakin Park pings. 2/4
Therefore, trial counsel’s failure to contact the alibi witness was not prejudicial, but the failure to use the AT&T disclaimer was prejudicial. 3/4
Ordinarily, this would mean you get a new trial, but your postconviction counsel failed to include this issue in your first PCR petition, so you don’t get a new trial. 4/4
