Adnan Syed is asking the Supreme Court of Maryland to overrule a lower court’s decision to bring back his convictions in the 1999 murder case examined in the hit podcast “Serial.”
Filed Wednesday, the brief from Syed’s lawyers comes three weeks after the Appellate Court of Maryland rejected his request to reconsider its March 28 opinion to reinstate his convictions and life sentence in the killing of his high school ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.
In that ruling, the intermediate appeals court found that Baltimore prosecutors and a city Circuit Court judge violated the rights of Lee’s brother, Young Lee, by neglecting to give him enough notice to be able to attend the Sept. 19 hearing that set Syed free. Young Lee, who lived in California, spoke at the hearing by video call, but argued he wanted to be there in-person.
