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Md. high court agrees to hear Adnan Syed exoneration case
The Maryland Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in an appeal over Adnan Syed's 1999 murder conviction, which remains in limbo amid a legal battle over crime victims' rights.
AG says Md. high court should take up Adnan Syed exoneration case
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office agrees that the state’s top court should take up Adnan Syed’s appeal in his 1999 murder conviction.
Court rules family’s appeal can advance in ‘Serial’ case
An appeal of the proceedings that freed Adnan Syed from prison filed by the family of the murder victim can move forward, Maryland’s intermediate appellate court ruled Friday.
‘Serial’ case: Syed asks Md. appeals court to dismiss appeal from Hae Min Lee’s family
The lawyer for Adnan Syed has asked Maryland's second-highest court to throw out an appeal from the brother of Hae Min Lee.
Judge vacates Syed’s conviction in 1999 murder that was subject of ‘Serial’ podcast
After spending 23 years in prison for murder, Adnan Syed walked free after a Baltimore judge vacated his conviction in the 1999 slaying of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.
Baltimore judge orders new look at evidence in ‘Serial’ case
A Baltimore judge has ordered new testing for evidence in the case of a Maryland man whose murder conviction was chronicled in the podcast “Serial.”
Frosh urges Supreme Court to reject Syed’s appeal
Maryland urges high court to deny Adnan’s Syed’s appeal, saying counsel’s failure to investigate alibi witness did not affect podcast star's murder conviction.
Report: ‘Serial’ slaying DNA evidence didn’t match suspect
Prosecutors in the murder case chronicled on the podcast “Serial” tested evidence from the 1999 crime last summer and found that none matched DNA from the convicted killer. Defense attorney […]
Md. high court hears state’s appeal in ‘Serial’ star Syed’s case
ANNAPOLIS — Attorneys for Maryland and for podcast star Adnan Syed battled Thursday before the state’s top court as it considers whether he was denied effective assistance of counsel when […]
Criminal defense lawyers back Syed before Md. high court
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.
Maryland’s top court will hear state’s appeal in Syed case
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 […]
Frosh urges Md. high court to review, reinstate Syed’s conviction
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.
