“Adnan’s case was a mess—is a mess,” Koenig said on the podcast. “Baltimore City Police have told the prosecutor’s office they’re going to put someone back on the case…But I do know that the chances of the state ever trying to prosecute Adnan again are remote at best.”

Syed, 41, served 23 years of a life sentence in prison after he was convicted in 2000 for the 1999 murder of his high school classmate and ex-girlfriend Have Min Lee. On Monday, Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn ordered that Syed’s conviction be vacated and approved his release from custody.

The case received much public attention after the release of Serial’s first season in 2014. Koenig’s reporting focused on Lee’s death and scrutinized key details of the prosecution’s evidence that led to Syed’s conviction. Serial’s coverage of Syed’s case also resulted in the podcast becoming a huge success, and Koenig was named by Time magazine on its list of “The 100 Most Influential People” in 2015.

Koenig was present in the courtroom on Monday when Phinn announced her ruling.

“Yesterday, there was a lot of talk about fairness,” the journalist said on Tuesday’s podcast episode. “But most of what the state put in that motion to vacate all the actual evidence was either known or knowable to cops and prosecutors back in 1999.”

Koenig added, “So even on a day when the government publicly recognizes its own mistakes, it’s hard to feel cheered about a triumph of fairness because we built a system that took more than 20 years to self-correct. And that’s just this one case.”

Koenig also described the scene outside the Baltimore courthouse on Monday after Syed was released.

“From the people who’ve been arguing for his release some of them for decades, the pent-up strain of years worth of rage and frustration suddenly loosed on the sidewalk, spilling onto Calvert Street,” she said.

“Adnan didn’t say a word, just kept his cool while sheriff’s deputies hurried him through the scrum and into a white van,” Koenig continued. “Adnan and I have talked on and off over the years. More recently, he seemed like he was trying to tamp down his hopes, not get ahead of himself.”

Syed is currently on home detention with GPS location monitoring. The prosecution has 30 days to decide if they will seek a new trial against Syed or drop the charges.

Newsweek reached out to Koenig for comment.