Koenig wrote, 'To reduce his conclusion to one line: Welch found that Gutierrez's cross-examination of the state's cell phone expert at trial was so deeply deficient, and her deficiency so avoidable if only she'd employed the twin virtues of reading comprehension and attention to detail, that Adnan's convictions should be vacated, and he should be granted a new trial.' While Serial dug into the cell phone evidence used in Syed's initial trial, Koenig noted that the information that informed Welch's new decision was uncovered by Susan Simpson and Rabia Chaudry of the, which has been tracking Syed's case since the end of Serial Season One. And yet Adnan struck this familiar jailhouse posture: 'If only someone would take another look' Interestingly, the new look that convinced Welch to grant Syed a retrial still centered around Gutierrez's incompetence, only instead of her failure to track down McClain, it was her faulty cross-examination of the state of Maryland's cell phone expert (Welch, however, in his new ruling did order that McClain's testimony be re-transmitted to the Maryland Court of Appeal). I mean, his legal options, by any clear-eyed assessment, were moribund.
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