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Mr. Syed, who was the subject of the 2014 podcast “Serial,” had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his high school classmate Hae Min Lee.
Adnan Syed walking out of the Baltimore City Circuit Court in September. His murder conviction was reinstated on Tuesday. Ting Shen for The New York Times
By Daniel Victor March 29, 2023
A Maryland appeals court on Tuesday reinstated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the “Serial” podcast who was freed last year after he had spent 23 years fighting charges that he had killed his former high school girlfriend.
Mr. Syed’s case received widespread public attention in 2014 after the podcast raised questions about the conviction, and a flurry of legal activity followed. Mr. Syed has maintained his innocence throughout the case.
Here is a brief timeline of his case.
1999 Hae Min Lee is killed.
Hae Min Lee and Adnan Syed at junior prom. The photo was used in “The Case Against Adnan Syed,” a documentary series on HBO. HBO
Hae Min Lee, 18, was killed by strangulation when she was a student at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Md.
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Charges are dropped.
Prosecutors dropped the charges against Mr. Syed on Oct. 11. The Maryland Office of the Public Defender said the charges were dropped because the DNA evidence excluded Mr. Syed. An appeal before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, in which Ms. Lee’s family sought to pause proceedings, remained pending.
2023 The conviction is reinstated.
The Appellate Court of Maryland reinstated Mr. Syed’s murder conviction on March 28, ruling that the lower court had violated the right of Young Lee, a brother of Ms. Lee, to have been notified of and to attend the hearing in September when a judge vacated the conviction.
In a 2-to-1 decision, the appeals court ordered the trial court to hold a new hearing on the motion to vacate Mr. Syed’s conviction that would give Mr. Lee enough notice to attend in person, unlike the previous hearing, which he joined via Zoom.
The decision does not mean that Mr. Syed must immediately return to prison because the appeals court issued a 60-day stay of its ruling to give both sides time to consider next steps, said David Sanford, one of Mr. Lee’s lawyers.
Michael Levenson, Abbie VanSickle and Amanda Holpuch contributed reporting.
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