Maryland's highest court issued an order on Thursday that prevents the reinstatement of Adnan Syed's murder conviction by a lower court, while the Supreme Court of Maryland decides whether to hear his appeal.
Syed, whose legal case that began more than two decades ago gained international attention from the hit podcast “Serial," regained his freedom in September from a judge after Baltimore prosecutors moved to vacate his conviction, saying they reviewed the case and found alternative suspects as well as unreliable evidence used at trial.
