Serial' podcast

2022 - 9 - 19

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Adnan Syed, subject of 'Serial' podcast, is released after his ... (NPR)

Syed was 18 when he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Lee was murdered in 1999 when she was also 18.

Though prosecutors asked the judge to vacate the conviction in their recent motion, they are not saying Syed is innocent of the crime. HBO later released its own documentary, The Case Against Adnan Syed. This detail makes a new trial necessary, prosecutors said.

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Judge Overturns Murder Conviction of Adnan Syed of 'Serial' (The New York Times)

Mr. Syed, 41, had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his high school classmate Hae Min Lee. The judge gave prosecutors 30 days to ask for a ...

“Mr. “This was so in 1999, when Mr. Mr. The prosecutors’ investigation found that one of the two “alternative suspects” had been convicted of attacking a woman in her vehicle, and that one had been convicted of engaging in serial rape and sexual assault. The evidence could have helped Mr. An appeals court vacated Mr. Wilds’s testimony and to show that Mr. “This is not a podcast for me,” Mr. As the court took a recess, Mr. Prosecutors said in the motion that they were not asserting that Mr. Phinn of Baltimore City Circuit Court vacated the conviction “in the interests of fairness and justice,” finding that prosecutors had failed to turn over evidence that could have helped Mr. In a motion filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court on Wednesday, prosecutors said that a nearly yearlong investigation, conducted with Mr.

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Adnan Syed, featured in 'Serial' podcast, will be released from prison (The Washington Post)

A judge on Monday vacated the conviction of Adnan Syed, whose murder case drew wide attention after it was featured on the true-crime podcast “Serial.”.

Becky Feldman, chief of the state’s attorney’s office’s Sentencing Review Unit, walked the courtroom through her “overwhelming cause for concern” about the integrity of Syed’s original trial. Syed was convicted of murder in 2000 and has been serving a life sentence. Syed was arrested in late February 1999 in the killing of Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend.

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Adnan Syed, subject of 'Serial' podcast, to be released from prison (PBS NewsHour)

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed's conviction for the 1999 murder of high school ...

That is entitled to the defendant, as well,” she added. The 12-episode podcast won a Peabody Award and was transformative in popularizing podcasts for a wide audience. “The file in this case was made available on several occasions to the defense.” The state’s attorney’s office had said if the motion were granted it would effectively put Syed in a new trial status, vacating his convictions, while the case remained active. But after a series of appeals, Maryland’s highest court in 2019 denied a new trial in a 4-3 opinion. But after the hearing, his lawyer Erica Suter described his reaction to the decision, saying: “He said he couldn’t believe it’s real.” The investigation “revealed undisclosed and newly-developed information regarding two alternative suspects, as well as unreliable cell phone tower data,” Mosby’s office said in a news release last week. Syed was led into the crowded courtroom in handcuffs Monday. His mother and other family representatives were in the room, as was Mosby. There were gasps and applause in the crowded courtroom as the judge announced her decision. The judge also said the state must decide whether to Phinn ruled that the state violated its legal obligation to share evidence that could have bolstered Syed’s defense.

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Adnan Syed's Release Prompts New Episode of Hit 'Serial' Podcast (Bloomberg)

Judge Melissa Phinn of the Baltimore City Circuit Court overturned his conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, Syed's high school classmate. She cited ...

She cited two “alternative suspects” and new evidence that could have affected the outcome of the case. Syed was serving a life sentence and had spent more than two decades in prison, though he maintained his innocence. Judge Melissa Phinn of the Baltimore City Circuit Court overturned his conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, Syed’s high school classmate.

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Murder conviction is overturned for Adnan Syed of 'Serial' podcast (WBFO)

Adnan Syed, the man who was convicted in 2000 of killing his girlfriend Hae Min Lee, has had his conviction overturned.

For example, one of the prosecutors argued during the trial that the Pakistani American and the Muslim American communities were ready to abet Adnan Syed if he were to flee to Pakistan before sentencing. And Judge Phinn ruled today that Syed deserves a new trial, and that in the meantime, he can return home. Prosecutors now have 30 days to decide whether or not they want to drop the charges against him or try him again for murder. The prosecutors also note that these other suspects have a history of violent attacks on women, including after Syed was incarcerated. In 2000, Syed was convicted of murdering his former girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, the previous year when he was 17 years old. In a Baltimore courtroom, a judge has ruled that after 22 years in prison, Adnan Syed is going home today.

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Judge Releases Adnan Syed From Prison After 'Serial' Podcast ... (Forbes)

Prosecutors now have 30 days to either drop the case or request a new trial for Syed, whose life sentence for murder was challenged by the hit podcast ...

[ordered a new trial](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/us/adnan-syed-serial.html) in 2018, arguing Syed suffered from ineffective legal counsel at the time of his original trial, but Maryland’s highest court reversed that decision a year later. Syed’s legal team [asked prosecutors to review](https://twitter.com/BaltimoreSAO/status/1502052745309736963) his conviction last year under a state law that lets juveniles ask for sentence modifications. Serial producer Sarah Koenig was present in the Baltimore courthouse during Monday’s hearing, and she’ll release a new episode Tuesday morning, the show Syed and his lawyers have pushed back on his conviction for years, and the producers of Serial and a 2019 HBO documentary series helped bring the case—and its purported flaws—into public view. Meanwhile, Syed’s attorney [says](https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/us/adnan-syed-judge-approves-new-dna-testing/index.html) the defendant’s DNA wasn’t found on Lee’s body or in her car, according to [unofficial testing](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/arts/television/case-against-adnan-syed-dna-hbo-finale.html) that wasn’t included in the murder investigation. The Supreme Court also [declined to hear](https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782575176/u-s-supreme-court-wont-hear-adnan-syed-s-appeal-keeping-serial-subject-in-prison) Syed’s case in 2019. Critics have questioned the reliability of the prosecutors’ evidence, including cell tower data and testimony from a former classmate of Syed’s who says he helped bury Lee’s body, and [argued](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/serial-witness-asia-mcclain-claims-testimony-surpressed) another classmate who provided an alibi for Syed at the time of the murder should’ve been called to testify. [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-adnan-syed-hae-min-lee-024f739b28b33cf50e76c50d640c0882?taid=6328ce267c9ef6000120a207&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter) and [Baltimore Sun](https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-adnan-syed-hearing-to-vacate-conviction-20220919-ynxvlcuqpbch5h6h2xl5xleh7q-story.html) reported. [asked a judge](https://www.forbes.com/sites/madelinehalpert/2022/09/14/adnan-syed-case-prosecutors-reportedly-ask-judge-to-vacate-murder-conviction-at-center-of-serial-podcast/?sh=6aa7f8a22e85) to vacate Syed’s conviction and allow for a new trial last week, arguing new evidence had emerged undermining his conviction and implicating two other suspects in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee. [reportedly](https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-adnan-syed-hearing-to-vacate-conviction-20220919-ynxvlcuqpbch5h6h2xl5xleh7q-story.html) remain under GPS monitoring while prosecutors decide whether to seek a new trial. [multiple](https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-adnan-syed-hearing-to-vacate-conviction-20220919-ynxvlcuqpbch5h6h2xl5xleh7q-story.html) [news](https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-adnan-syed-hae-min-lee-024f739b28b33cf50e76c50d640c0882?taid=6328ce267c9ef6000120a207&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter) [outlets](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/19/adnan-syed-conviction-vacated-judge/), ordering the 41-year-old to be released from prison more than two decades after he was found guilty—and eight years after the hit podcast Serial raised doubts about the evidence connecting him to the crime.

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Conviction of Adnan Syed in 'Serial' podcast case is overturned and ... (NBC News)

A judge on Monday vacated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, years after the hit podcast “Serial” chronicled his case and cast doubt on his role in the ...

The 12-episode podcast won a Peabody Award and was transformative in popularizing podcasts for a wide audience. "We are declaring that in the interest of fairness and justice, he is entitled to a new trial." "The file in this case was made available on several occasions to the defense." "I was kind of blindsided," Lee told the court. [legal team has insisted that the cellphone data used against him was unreliable](https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/serial-star-adnan-syed-court-hearing-could-lead-retrial-msna787486) because carrier AT&T had said it determined only where outgoing calls were coming from, not incoming calls. But they now question “unreliable cellphone tower data” used against Syed at trial and want to look at “two alternative suspects.” But Phinn said the family, represented by Lee's brother in California, could easily jump on Zoom to address the court. "To suggest that the State's Attorney's Office has provided adequate notice under these circumstances is outrageous," Kelly told the court. That means continuing to utilize all available resources to bring a suspect or suspects to justice and hold them accountable." Her body was found buried in Baltimore's Leakin Park. It’s killing me, and it’s killing my mother.” Trial prosecutors did not properly turn over evidence to defense lawyers that could have helped them show someone else killed Lee, Phinn said.

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