******'s Adnan Syed granted new trial
Adnan Syed, the man convicted of killing his girlfriend and whose case was made famous by the podcast ****** that reexamined the murder and subsequent legal proceedings, has been granted a new trial by a Baltimore judge, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Syed has been in prison for the past 16 years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, for which he received a life sentence plus 30 years.
Syed's lawyers argued that important evidence had been ig**red or inaccurate, and that Syed's previous legal representation had been inadequate, and successfully fought to bring his case back for court consideration by focusing on new testimony from an alibi witness as well as a deeper examination of the cell tower data that prosecutors used to put Syed behind bars Read more...