Syed, who has long maintained his innocence, was released from prison last month after serving more than two decades behind bars.
DNA testing has effectively cleared the 41-year-old former murder suspect.
» After the latest round of DNA testing generated results that, like previous rounds of testing, excluded Adnan Syed, he has now been formally exonerated! » Laura Nirider, a clinical professor of law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, wrote in a Tuesday tweet.
Syed walked free in September after a Baltimore circuit court judge ordered that his conviction be vacated.
