And wants him released as the investigation continues.
A state attorney wants to vacate the conviction of “Serial” podcast subject Adnan Syed and retry the case.
The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee in Baltimore became a national obsession in the first season of Sarah Koenig’s podcast “Serial” in 2014. He was convicted of strangling Lee in 2000 and has been serving a life sentence. Despite a number of appeals, he’s remained behind bars since.
After a yearlong investigation conducted by the state’s attorney for Baltimore City and Syed’s attorneys, a new trial is being requested after new evidence was found, including some that points to two suspects who were never properly ruled out who may have been involved together.
