karen greenberg speaking to us from new york there. and of course the more than 300000000 people who listen to the serial podcast and who know the ins and outs of this trial will be, will be fascinated to see where this goes. thank you, karen that the taliban have released an american citizen. an exchange for an afghan tribal leader, how's you by sheer norris, i was serving life in the us prison on drug charges. while contractor mark frederick's had been detained in afghanistan since early 2020. hey, these who castro has more when he was mart verdes, today is 28th november 2021. a proof of life video published nearly 2 years into his captivity showed mark frere ricks in afghanistan. the former us naval officer and civilian engineer, had been kidnapped by the taliban in january, 2020, and reportedly held by the her connie network. now he's free, his return is the combination of many, many months of perilous and effective work. tried so many colleagues in, in our government. the telephone release fair rigs in exchange for 100 us she nume

karen greenberg is the director of the center on national security at fordham university school of law. she has more on why admin c. i was released. your has been a judge in the past to also said look, the should should be overturned info now, and he was overruled. so this is not the 1st time it's been reconsider. so why now in part it is because of the serial that you referred to call the alibi which res, theory about the evidence presented in k. i can go into what the pod cast is, but you can't do it and i think it's worth the prosecutors to look at this again. and when they did, they saw that a number of issues raised by the pod cast. actually looked at somewhat sketchy. and that had to do with an alibi that was there, but not presenting. and it had to do with the timeline about how the murder was committed and when it was submitted. and the fact that were presented in the court and the timeline in the court did not match up. and this is something that my cat had brought in to the public consciousness. so actually very important. and if you asked about the timing, the, the timing di