As fans of the podcast Serial know, one of the key pieces of testimony that could point to Adnan Syed’s innocence in the 1999 murder of ex-girlfriend Hai Min Lee is that of Asia McClain, a former classmate who says she saw Syed in the library on the day Lee was strangled and left in a Baltimore park
Mclain, who now goes by her married name Chapman, never testified in court during the original trial, insisting that she was never approached by Syed’s defense attorney
In 2010, when she was contacted by Adnan’s new legal defense team, she declined to testify. Chapman is speaking out now, however, on behalf of Syed in his quest for a retrial. Chapman revealed her reasons for coming forward 17 years later in an interview withABC. Read more…
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