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 hit podcast “Serial,” free.
The state’s second-highest court on Tuesday reinstated Syed’s convictions in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee.
In a split opinion, the Appellate Court of Maryland said a judge in Baltimore violated the right of Lee’s brother to attend in person the September hearing that wiped away Syed’s guilty finding and that city prosecutors neglected to give Young Lee ample notice of that consequential court proceeding.
