Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast “Serial,” who had served more than 23 years in jail for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, had his murder conviction overturned by a Baltimore court on Monday.
Syed was ordered to be freed from jail by Baltimore City Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn while prosecutors determine whether or not to retry him.
The judgment was made after prosecutors submitted a request last Wednesday seeking for the conviction to be overturned on the grounds that there was evidence implicating two other suspects in the 1999 murder of 17-year-old Hae Min Lee.
Syed received a life sentence plus 30 years in jail after being found guilty of first-degree murder, abduction, robbery, and false imprisonment in February 2000.
She and Syed were students at Baltimore County, Maryland’s Woodlawn High School on January 13, 1999, when Lee vanished. Lee’s corpse was discovered buried in a Baltimore park many weeks after she had gone, and an examination eventually revealed that she had been the victim of physical strangulation.
This story is still developing. It’ll be revised.