Marilyn Mosby: “We're not yet declaring, not yet declaring Adnan Syed's innocent. But we are declaring that in the interest of fairness…”

The stakes couldn’t be higher.

I mean, to be honest with you, as -- I expected, as the state’s attorney, that fighting for racial justice in the criminal justice system, fighting to end mass incarceration in a state where you have the largest sort of incarceration of…

So, one of the things that I recognized, as a prosecutor, my ability to shape the criminal justice system, recognizing, as I stated, that these low-level offenses for black people in this country can lead to a death sentence.

But never did I or could I have ever imagined that I would be mocked, that I would be ridiculed, that I would receive hate mail, that I would receive death threats, they would describe how my husband would be killed coming out of my house…