‘Serial’ Podcast Subject Appeals to Supreme Court, Citing Alibi (1)

A Maryland murder case that garnered nationwide attention after a hit podcast raised questions about its subject’s guilt landed on Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Adnan Syed’s petition takes aim at a more discrete legal issue than the hefty question of whether he’s innocent in the 1999 killing of Baltimore County high school student Hae Min Lee. The pair had dated.

Syed argues that a state appeals court ruling against him undermines the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, due to the way that the court evaluated his claim that his trial lawyer’s failure to investigate his alibi warrants a ...