Adnan Syed’s murder trial wasn’t so prejudiced by his attorney’s failure to contact an alibi witness that he’s entitled to a new one, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled March 8.
The 4-3 decision overturns that of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, which ordered a re-do for Syed in March 2018.
Syed’s conviction in 2000 for the murder of his then high-school classmate and girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, was the subject of the first season of the This American Life investigative podcast spinoff, Serial.
He was charged as an adult and, after his conviction, sentenced to life in ...
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