The Appellate Court of Maryland on Tuesday reinstated the convictions of Adnan Syed for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, agreeing with Young Lee that prosecutors and the presiding judge who vacated the conviction didn’t give him enough time to attend the hearing in person. Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn vacated Syed’s 2000 conviction …
“Substantial direct and circumstantial evidence” supported a jury’s guilty verdict for since-cleared murder suspect Adnan Syed, according to the now-retired judge who presided over his trial in 2000. Wanda Keyes Heard, who retired in 2019, submitted an affidavit in support of the legal challenge by murder victim Hae Min Lee’s family, who are seeking more …
Baltimore prosecutors have filed a motion to vacate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, whose case gained international prominence as a result of the podcast “Serial.” Syed, 42, was convicted in 2000 of killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, who was 18 at the time of her death in 1999, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The …
North Myrtle Beach police have solved a 24-year-old murder using DNA evidence, naming a man tapped as a possible suspect in the 1999 death of Hae Min Lee by the podcast “Serial,” according to WPDE. Ronald Lee Moore, who had also been named in a series of burglaries, sexual assaults and another unsolved homicide case …
The widespread attention his case received as part of a popular podcast was not enough to secure one Maryland convict a new trial. According to KFYR, Adnan Syed will remain behind bars to serve a life sentence despite the fact that the state’s court of appeals agreed his legal team presented a deficient defense during …
