As a teenager in 2000, Adnan Syed was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his former girlfriend and classmate 17-year-old Hae Min Lee – years later in 2022 he was freed.
Adnan Syed’s murder conviction still stands after Maryland’s highest court ordered the hearing to be redone.
At the age of 17, in 2000, Syed was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Hae Min Lee, his former girlfriend and classmate.
Ms Lee was strangled and buried in Baltimore Park in 1999.
However, the 43-year-old was released in October 2022 after the Baltimore City State Attorney said DNA evidence supported his innocence.
Syed has maintained his innocence throughout and often expressed concern for Ms Lee’s surviving relatives.
But on Friday, Maryland’s highest court ruled that earlier proceedings violated the rights of the victim’s family – marking just the latest twist in a lengthy legal saga that gained fame through the hit podcast “Serial”.
