Adnan Syed was released Monday after a Baltimore judge vacated his conviction for a murder he has claimed for decades he didn’t commit.
The Innocence Project welcomed Syed’s release and overturning of his 2000 conviction for the 1999 killing of his high-school classmate and ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee.
Syed faced the rest of his life in prison in the case that garnered widespread attention with the 2014 hit podcast “Serial” that called his guilt into question.
Maryland prosecutors moved to vacate the conviction and release Syed after an investigation uncovered Brady violations of undisclosed evidence and new information about alternate ...
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