Adnan Syed, the man at the center of Serial’s 2014 investigation into the murder of high schooler Hae Min Lee, will get a new trial, NBC Washington reports. Although Syed was initially granted a new trial in 2016, the state appealed the decision. Today, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals decided it would uphold that ruling, paving the way for Syed’s new case.
In 2000, Syed was convicted for the first-degree murder of Lee, his ex-girlfriend. Lee’s body was found in 1999 in a Baltimore park, following her disappearance weeks earlier. During Serial’s first season, host Sarah Koenig and her investigative team dug into the circumstances around her death, as well as the questionable proceedings of the trial itself; Koenig’s reporting...
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