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.

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The lawyer for Adnan Syed has asked Maryland's second-highest court to throw out an appeal from the brother of Hae Min Lee.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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 C. Justin Brown tweeted Thursday that no forensic evidence links ...

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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 his trial attorney chose not to telephone an alibi witness ...

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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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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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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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