Criminal defense counsel has an ethical duty to contact potential alibi witnesses identified by clients regardless of whether the testimony would fall within the lawyers’ trial strategy, many well-known Maryland defense attorneys argued this week in urging the state’s top court to order the retrial of convicted murderer – and podcast star – Adnan Syed.

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Two years after he was granted a new trial by a Baltimore judge, Adnan Syed is asking the state’s highest court to uphold that order.

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Maryland’s top court will consider among its approximately 150 appeals this term whether an internet sensation’s murder conviction should be reinstated.

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The Court of Special Appeals had just granted his most famous client a new trial, and C. Justin Brown was having a press conference at his downtown Baltimore office. On the table between him and the assembled reporters that March afternoon was a small tripod, about 6 inches tall, holding up his phone.

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Maryland’s top court will consider whether podcast star Adnan Syed’s murder conviction should be reinstated. The Court of Appeals agreed Thursday to hear the state’s argument that Syed’s trial attorney’s ill-fated defense might have been flawed but was not constitutionally ...

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Attorneys for Adnan Syed asked Maryland's high court Tuesday to let the Court of Special Appeals' decision awarding him a new trial to stand.

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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh is urging the state’s top court to reinstate podcast star Adnan Syed’s murder conviction, saying his trial attorney’s ill-fated defense might have been flawed but was not constitutionally ineffective.

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Adnan Syed should receive a new trial because his lawyer failed to investigate a potential alibi witness, a divided Court of Special Appeals held Thursday.

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A former prosecutor who argued against a new murder trial for a man known to millions through the popular “Serial” podcast is running for office. The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday that Thiru Vignarajah will run in next year’s Democratic primary for ...

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The state’s lead counsel in the post-conviction proceedings for Adnan Syed is working for the attorney general’s office pro bono, according to documents obtained by The Daily Record. Thiruvendran “Thiru” Vignarajah was lead counsel on the case while serving as ...

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