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Julia Carrie Wong

US court reinstates Adnan Syed murder conviction in Serial podcast case

Adnan Syed was freed in September last year after being convicted in 2000 over the murder of 17-year-old Hae Min Lee.
Adnan Syed was freed in September last year after being convicted in 2000 over the murder of 17-year-old Hae Min Lee. Photograph: Jerry Jackson/AP

A court in Maryland has reinstated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, the Baltimore man whose alleged involvement in the 1999 murder of 17-year-old Hae Min Lee was the subject of the hit podcast Serial.

Syed, 41, was convicted of murdering Lee in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison, though he always maintained his innocence. In September last year, state prosecutors revealed they had uncovered new evidence they said undermined Syed’s conviction and pointed to two alternative suspects.

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