BALTIMORE — A Maryland appellate court sent shock waves around the globe this week when it ordered a redo of the legal hearing that set Adnan Syed, subject of the
Adnan Syed, center right, leaves the courthouse after a hearing on Sept. 19, 2022, in Baltimore. Syed was released from a Maryland prison this year after his case was the focus of the true-crime podcast “Serial.” An appeals court Tuesday reinstated his conviction and ordered the trial court to hold a new hearing to allow
Maryland’s second-highest court reinstated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee on March 28 in a surprising new opinion that found a violation of Lee’s family's right to attend in-person when a judge freed Syed from prison and vacated his conviction in the killing. A split three-judge panel found that
Maryland’s second-highest court on Tuesday reinstated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee in a surprising new opinion that found Lee’s family had the right to attend in person when a judge freed Syed from prison and vacated his conviction in the killing.
A Maryland appeals court has reinstated Adnan Syed's murder conviction in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee because the Lee family was not afforded the right to attend a hearing in September where a judge freed Syed and vacated his life sentence.