BALTIMORE — The family of Hae Min Lee doubled down on its appellate request for a new hearing to overturn Adnan Syed’s murder conviction, citing a public dispute over what the handwritten note that helped free him means.
Lee’s brother, Young Lee, is fighting to have a say in the process that freed Syed after the man made famous by the “Serial” podcast served more than two decades in prison for Hae Min Lee’s killing.
The appeal comes after a Baltimore Circuit Court judge threw out Syed’s conviction in September and city prosecutors dismissed his charges in October, and it has yielded pointed debate in court papers over how the proceedings played out and whether there was legitimate reason to toss out Syed’s guilty verdict.
