BALTIMORE — Five men in graduation caps and gowns filed into front-row seats to cheers and applause. As University of Baltimore faculty sang the men’s praises, large loops of barbed wire were just visible through windows bookending the podium. It was graduation day. Time to celebrate earning bachelor’s degrees in what their valedictorian called the “worst environment possible”: prison. The .
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Following a five-day trial, an Anne Arundel County jury on Friday found 20-year-old Stephen Jarrod Davis II, of Pasadena, criminally responsible for the 2020 First-Degree Murder of his 5-year-old half-sister, Anaya Jannah Abdul, State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess announced.
Adnan Syed, the Maryland man who was serving life in prison for a 1999 murder before his sentence was overturned by new evidence this fall, is now working at Georgetown University.
Adnan Syed, the Maryland man who was serving life in prison for a 1999 murder before his sentence was overturned by new evidence this fall, is now working at Georgetown University.