Adnan Syed’s decades-long legal saga took a positive turn for him Wednesday, when Baltimore prosecutors said they want a court to vacate his conviction for a murder he maintains he didn’t commit.
An investigation by the Maryland prosecutors and the defense uncovered Brady violations of undisclosed evidence and new information about alternate suspects in the 1999 killing of Syed’s high-school classmate and ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee.
The case garnered widespread attention with the 2014 hit podcast “Serial” that called Syed’s guilt into question.
Now, those prosecutors lack confidence in the integrity of the conviction secured in 2000, they said in ...
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