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He also blocked the release of Charles Manson devotee Leslie Van Houten on three different occasions before stepping out of the way of an appellate court decision last year.

The Supreme Court overturned his ruling and an appellate court ruling.

An appellate court tossed those charges last year, ruling prosecutors had not proven an “overarching conspiracy” with corrupt college counselor Rick Singer, and Wilson has since embarked on a campaign to clear his family’s name.

“Of course, this might be a little less disturbing had his allies on the nation’s top appellate court not more or less agreed with him.”

Syed, whose conviction was vacated in 2022 after evidence implicating two other suspects was found to have been improperly withheld, had that vacancy overturned in March of last year by the state’s appellate court.