Syed has landed a full-time job with Georgetown as a program associate for the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative.
Its programs include education and training for incarcerated individuals and others who have left prison.One of Syed’s roles is to provide research and other support for a hands-on undergraduate class called “Making an Exoneree,” in which students seek to help free innocent people from prison by examining decades-old convictions and creating short documentaries about the cases.“I couldn’t have scripted it better,” Howard said Thursday. He said Syed was not available for interviews.
“To go from prison to being a Georgetown student and then to actually be on campus on a pathway to work for Georgetown at the Prisons and Justice Initiative, it’s a full circle moment,” Syed said in a statement through Georgetown. The university’s initiative “changed my life,” he said. “It changed my family’s life. Hopefully I can have the same kind of impact on others.”
In September, the Baltimore City state’s attorney office said in a motion in circuit court that it had lost confidence in Syed’s conviction and identified other possible suspects. Days later,when a judge vacated his conviction after finding deficiencies in how prosecutors had turned over evidence to defense attorneys decades ago. As he walked out of the courthouse on Sept. 19, Syed was photographed carrying a binder with a Georgetown bulldog sticker.
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