Nothing to do with Thiru who both sides loathe - for good reason.

Three Things.

1) Maryland Code, Criminal Procedure Section 8-301.1: Vacation of conviction:

This is a relatively new section of the criminal code. It took effect in October of 2019. It's original purpose was to vacate convictions of those set up by the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force. So that's why this avenue had not been pursued before. It did not exist, until the Gun Trace Task Force scandal.

2) The JRA

Here's a link to the trajectory of the Juvenile Restoration Act. First introduced by a few senators in January 2021, this Act provides a mechanism from which to reduce sentences of those who committed crimes as minors, especially those sentenced to Life Without Parole.

3) Becky Feldman.

As the JRA was working its way through the system, it was incredibly popular. Marilyn Mosby knew she'd need a separate Unit just to handle all the applications for sentence modification that were about to flood her office, based on the JRA.

So Mosby hired a criminal defense attorney to head the newly formed Sentence Review unit. Instead of the State taking an adversarial position with defendant's, Becky's job is to work with defense attorneys to open up the state's files, compare contents to defense files, and try to find inconsistencies. If there is an inconsistency, then it's Brady, and that's how Becky Feldman can help convicted murderers get out of prison.

The JRA passed in October of 2021 and the Sentence Review Unit has been busy getting sentences reduced and/or vacated. The Sentence Review Unit (aka Becky Feldman) finds the Gun Trace Task Force mechanism for vacating convictions (see number 1 above) especially useful for overturning convictions like Adnan's.