BREAKING: Adnan Syed, whose case was subject of 'Serial' podcast, to be released, murder conviction tossed
BALTIMORE - A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of's conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee - a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.”'s conviction be vacated and she approved the release of the now-41-year-old who has spent more than two decades behind bars.'s defense. She ordered him released from custody and placed on home detention with GPS location monitoring.
The investigation “revealed undisclosed and newly-developed information regarding two alternative suspects, as well as unreliable cell phone tower data,” State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's office said in a news release last week. The suspects were known persons at the time of the original investigation, but weren't properly ruled out nor disclosed to the defense, said prosecutors, who declined to release information about the suspects, due to the ongoing investigation.
But after a series of appeals, Maryland's highest court in 2019 denied a new trial in a 4-3 opinion. The Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that's legal counsel was deficient in failing to investigate an alibi witness, but it disagreed that the deficiency prejudiced the case. The court said's case in 2019.
The true-crime series was the brainchild of longtime radio producer and former Baltimore Sun reporter Sarah Koenig, who spent more than a year digging into's case and reporting her findings in almost real-time in hour-long segments. The 12-episode podcast won a Peabody Award and was transformative in popularizing podcasts for a wide audience.
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