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Maryland appellate opinion in Adnan Syed case sparks debate over scope of crime victims’ rights

BALTIMORE — An opinion issued this week in the appeal of the family of Hae Min Lee from the notorious case of the man long held responsible for her killing, Adnan Syed, has touched off a debate in Maryland about crime victim rights.

Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2023

A Maryland appeals court reinstated Adnan Syed’s convictions. Here’s everything you need to know.

BALTIMORE — A Maryland appellate court sent shock waves around the globe this week when it ordered a redo of the legal hearing that set Adnan Syed, subject of the hit podcast “Serial,” free.

Tribune News Service · Mar 30, 2023

Appealing Adnan Syed’s release, Hae Min Lee’s brother asks appeals court for new hearing

BALTIMORE — After two murder trials, multiple failed appeals, 23 years in prison and a public acquittal, Adnan Syed’s legal saga is not over yet.

Tribune News Service · Dec 9, 2022

War of words: Maryland AG and Baltimore state's attorney spar over evidence that led to Adnan Syed’s release

BALTIMORE — Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby accused Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh of hiding evidence to keep Adnan Syed in prison, as a simmering feud between arguably the state’s two most powerful elected lawyers boiled over Wednesday.

Tribune News Service · Sep 22, 2022

Serial's Adnan Syed's freeing over new evidence - DNA, mobile data & handwritten notes

Adnan Syed has been freed from jail after 23 years over the murder of Hae Min Lee. Doubts over his criminal case sparked the hit podcast series Serial, which examined what happened to the 18-year-old student after new evidence was brought to light

Daily Mirror · Sep 21, 2022

Adnan Syed: Serial podcast reveals notes about another potential suspect led to conviction being tossed

Notes revealed two separate phone calls by two different people alerted prosecutors to another potential suspect more than two decades ago

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2022

First Thing: earthquake shakes Mexico on anniversary of two past tremors

Quake registered at 7.5 magnitude on anniversary of earlier tremors. Plus, the rise and fall of Peloton

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2022

Baltimore prosecutors move to vacate Adnan Syed conviction in 1999 murder case brought to national fame in ‘Serial’ podcast

BALTIMORE — Adnan Syed, the Baltimore man whose legal saga rocketed to international renown with the hit podcast “Serial,” could get a new trial after city prosecutors determined their predecessors withheld information about alternative suspects in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee.

Tribune News Service · Sep 15, 2022