BALTIMORE — Clothing, shoes and other pieces of evidence collected in the infamous Baltimore murder case against Adnan Syed will be sent off to a California lab for new DNA analysis, a city judge has ordered.
Together, Syed’s attorney and Baltimore prosecutors asked last week for the court to consider new postconviction DNA testing, arguing that the results could help settle Syed’s long-standing claims of innocence in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee.
Lee was strangled to death and discovered in a clandestine grave in Leakin Park. Police and prosecutors maintained that Syed, her ex-boyfriend, was culpable for her killing. He stood trial twice for her murder and was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years. Syed is incarcerated at the state’s Patuxent Institution in Jessup. He has appealed multiple times and has always maintained he is innocent.
