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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Brian Witte

Family of ‘Serial’ podcast murder victim demands right to take part in hearings

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The family of the murder victim whose case is chronicled by the hit podcast “Serial” asked Maryland’s highest court on Thursday to give crime victims a right to be heard and challenge evidence at hearings.

Young Lee, whose sister Hae Min Lee was killed in 1999, says the family didn't get sufficient notice to attend a hearing last fall where the man convicted of her murder, Adnan Syed, had his sentence overturned. An intermediate appellate court agreed with the family and reinstated Syed's sentence, although he remains free while the case works its way through the courts.

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