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 Adnan Syed, 35, is serving a life sentence for the 1999
strangulation of his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Syed's
lawyers are seeking a new trial based on new evidence amid questions
about the fairness of the case that were raised by the podcast in
late 2014.
During the fourth day of a hearing in Baltimore City Circuit Court,
Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Chad Fitzgerald said
defense lawyers had shown him "manipulated evidence" of cell phone
records when he was on the stand last week.
"I figured out what you were doing. I think you got caught in your
game," Fitzgerald said under questioning by defense lawyer Justin
Brown.
He also praised the analysis of the records made by AT&T engineer
Abe Waranowitz for the original trial.
 Fitzgerald testified for the prosecution on Friday that Waranowitz'
analysis was accurate in placing Syed at Baltimore's Leakin Park.
Lee's body was found there in February 2000.
Syed's defense team has argued that the cell phone evidence was
undependable. Waranowitz has filed an affidavit saying he was
unaware at the time that outgoing calls were reliable but incoming
calls were not.
Lawyers for Syed have contended before Judge Martin Welch that his
conviction verdict was unfair, based on inadequate legal counsel,
cell phone records and other issues. Under questioning by Deputy
Attorney General Thiru Vignarajah, defense expert and attorney David
Irwin on Monday repeated his testimony from last week, saying that
Syed's original lawyer, Cristina Gutierrez, had failed to contact a
possible alibi witness.
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Irwin said that Gutierrez's skills were slipping at the time of the
Syed trial. She was later disbarred and died in 2004.
The witness, Asia McClain Chapman, said on the witness stand last
week that she spoke with Syed at a library the day that Lee went
missing.
Under defense questioning, a security guard at the library who
testified anonymously said that he could not recall seeing Syed
there that day. Syed's legal team rested its case on Monday.
In a statement released through the Maryland Attorney General's
Office on Sunday, Lee's family said that the original trial had
shown that Syed was guilty.
"The events of this past week have reopened wounds few can imagine,"
the family said.
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