Adnan Syed

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.

Prosecutors last week asked the court to vacate the conviction and release Syed pending a retrial.

It was the 2014 podcast Serial that focused worldwide attention on the case and cast doubt on Syed's guilt. It's killing me," said Young Lee. Neither suspect has been named, but officials said both had documented records of violence towards women, including convictions that occurred after Syed's trial. "Everyday when I think it's over... Steve Kelly, a victim's rights lawyer for the family, said the Lees had been "shut out of the legal process" and were "deeply disappointed" with the way they had been treated. They relied in part on mobile phone location data that has since been proven unreliable.

Judge had overturned Syed's conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial.

From the day he was taken from his bed in the pre-dawn hours of 26 February 1999 until today, he has maintained his innocence and I, and my family, have believed him.” The podcast won a Peabody Award and did much to popularize the format. His mother and other family representatives were in the room, as was the state attorney, Marilyn Mosby. Chaudry also said: “Every piece of forensic evidence collected pointed to Adnan’s innocence. At his second trial, in February 2000, he was convicted of murder and Ruling that the state violated its legal obligation to share exculpatory evidence with Syed’s defense, the circuit court judge, Melissa Phinn, ordered Syed placed on home detention with GPS monitoring.

Mr Syed was 17 years old when he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Hae Min Lee, who was strangled and buried in a Baltimore ...

Judge Melissa Phinn of the Circuit Court in Baltimore ordered Mr Syed to be released from prison and put on home detention. Mr Syed was 17 years old when he was sentenced to life in prison in 2000 for the murder of his girlfriend Hae Min Lee, who was strangled and buried in a Baltimore park in 1999. Mr Syed was 17 years old when he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Hae Min Lee, who was strangled and buried in a Baltimore park in 1999.

A judge on Monday approved a motion to vacate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of the popular "Serial" podcast, ...

The investigation also revealed that one suspect was convicted of attacking a woman in her vehicle, according to the statement. [HBO docuseries ](https://www.hbo.com/the-case-against-adnan-syed)“The Case Against Adnan Syed,” an attorney for Syed said his client’s DNA was not found on any of the 12 samples retrieved from the victim’s body and car. That testing was not part of the official investigation by authorities. To corroborate his account, prosecutors presented cell phone records and expert witness testimony to place Syed at the site where Lee was buried. The state is not disclosing the names of the suspects but said that, according to the trial file, one of them said, “He would make her (Ms. The March motion asked that the victim’s clothing be tested for touch DNA, which was not available at the time of trial. At the time, Mosby said prosecutors were “not asserting, at this time, that Mr. In doing so, the podcast reached a huge audience and set off a But that mandate, Mosby said, is “separate and apart” from the investigation into who killed Lee. An innocent man spends decades wrongly incarcerated, while any information or evidence that could help identify the actual perpetrator becomes increasingly difficult to pursue.” Prosecutors moved to vacate Syed’s conviction following a nearly year-long investigation, they said in a news release last week. Her ruling was met by cheers and tears in the courtroom.

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.

The judge ordered him released from custody and placed on home detention with an electronic tag.

The court said Syed waived his ineffective counsel claim. After a series of appeals, Maryland’s highest court in 2019 denied a new trial in a 4-3 opinion. He was led into a crowded courtroom today. She ordered him released from custody and placed on home detention with an electronic tag. More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal. For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can help keep paywalls away.

A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed's conviction for the 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee — a ...

Prosecutors said they weren’t asserting that Syed is innocent, but they lacked confidence “in the integrity of the conviction” and recommended he be released on his own recognizance or bail. The 12-episode podcast won a Peabody Award and was transformative in popularizing podcasts for a wide audience. That is entitled to the defendant, as well,” she added. 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. The judge also said the state must decide whether to seek a new trial date or dismiss the case within 30 days. There were gasps and applause in the crowded courtroom as the judge announced her decision.

How a true crime podcast made a local news story from Baltimore, Maryland, go international.

They also said they believed people had been misinformed by the podcast and regretted that "so few [were] willing to speak up for Hae". The show premiered in autumn 2014 and each episode tried to piece together a timeline of what happened the night Lee was killed. But a judge also denied his request for bail. Serial helped ignite the popularity of podcasts. He remained imprisoned for years as his legal team argued for a new trial and tried to appeal his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court. For nearly 25 years Syed has maintained his innocence.

A judge vacated his conviction and granted him a new trial due to State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence.

Syed’s case is a stark example of how the concealment of exculpatory evidence — known as a Brady violation — leads to wrongful convictions. The court concluded that Mr. Syed, who is represented by Erica Suter of the

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.

US circuit court ruled that state of Maryland violated its legal obligation to share exculpatory evidence with defence.

The court said Mr Syed waived his ineffective counsel claim. He sat next to his lawyer, and his mother and other family representatives were in the room, as was Ms Mosby. After a series of appeals, Maryland’s highest court in 2019 denied a new trial in a 4-3 opinion. She ordered him released from custody and placed on home detention with an electronic tag. The court of appeals agreed with a lower court that Mr Syed’s legal counsel was deficient in failing to investigate an alibi witness, but it disagreed that the deficiency prejudiced the case. A US judge has ordered the release of a man convicted in 2000 in a murder case that was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial.

At the behest of prosecutors, Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn ordered that Syed's conviction be vacated and she approved the release of the now-41-year-old ...

But after a series of appeals, Maryland’s highest court in 2019 denied a new trial in a 4-3 opinion. Syed was led into the crowded courtroom in handcuffs Monday. Prosecutors said they weren’t asserting that Syed is innocent, but they lacked confidence “in the integrity of the conviction” and recommended he be released on his own recognizance or bail.

US court approves the release of the 41-year-old who spent more than two decades behind bars.

The court said Mr Syed waived his ineffective counsel claim. He sat next to his lawyer, and his mother and other family representatives were in the room, as was Ms Mosby. After a series of appeals, Maryland’s highest court in 2019 denied a new trial in a 4-3 opinion. She ordered him released from custody and placed on home detention with an electronic tag. The court of appeals agreed with a lower court that Mr Syed’s legal counsel was deficient in failing to investigate an alibi witness, but it disagreed that the deficiency prejudiced the case. A US judge has ordered the release of a man convicted in 2000 in a murder case that was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial.

On the podcast, a team of journalists led by Sarah Koenig, the host of “Serial,” documented major problems with the case against Syed: The prosecution's ...

After, [use our bot](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.html) to get better. [The Daily](https://www.nytimes.com/thedaily)” is about Adnan Syed. Huw Green thinks the term “mental health” [has become overly broad](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/us-mental-health-awareness.html). [expected to lower](https://theathletic.com/3607520/2022/09/19/nba-draft-age-rule-change-nbpa/) its entry age to 18 in the next collective bargaining agreement, clearing the way for high schoolers to re-enter the draft process. [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). [has grown stronger](https://www.nytimes.com/article/tropical-storm-fiona-hurricane.html), after deluging Puerto Rico with rain. [a special episode of “Serial,” released this morning](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/podcasts/serial-adnan-syed.html), about the huge turn in the case. It will be years before any show approaches the record set by “Phantom.” The next-longest-running productions (as of Sept. [Wrongful conviction](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/briefing/wrongful-convictions-parole.html) seems to be a major problem in the U.S. [whose reporting helped free Curtis Flowers](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/briefing/winter-storm-adam-kinzinger-pelosi-congress.html), a Mississippi man who’d been jailed for more than 20 years, for murders he evidently did not commit. [but exacerbated others](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/us-mental-health-insight.html), Rachel Aviv writes. Barring some smoking-gun evidence, which we didn’t find (and it seems like no one else has either), there was no way for us to say definitively what happened.

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.

On Monday, Baltimore City Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn threw out the 41-year-old's conviction and granted him a new trial, ordering his release after spending ...

June 2016 – Syed is granted a new trial after his attorneys argued that Syed’s original trial lawyer, who later died, was grossly negligent. Back at the original trial, this type of DNA testing was not available. 19 September 2022 – Baltimore City Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn overturns Syed’s conviction and orders him to be given a new trial, saying it is “in the interest of justice”. March 2022 – Syed’s defence team and state prosecutors file a joint request for new DNA testing to be carried out in the case. 2018 – An appeals court sides with Syed once again – upholding the decision to grant him a new trial and vacating his conviction. November 2015 – Syed is granted a new hearing, allowing his defence to bring forward new evidence in the case.