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Lee O. Sanderlin and Alex Mann

Judge overturns Adnan Syed’s 1999 murder conviction, releases him from prison

BALTIMORE — Adnan Syed, a Baltimore man whose legal saga spawned hit podcast “Serial,” is a free and innocent man. For now.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn on Monday overturned Syed’s first-degree murder conviction in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee after prosecutors and Syed’s lawyer filed motions questioning the integrity of the trial and evidence that has left him behind bars these past 23 years.

The judge ordered him unshackled in court and to remain on GPS monitoring pending a new trial.

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