Life sentence for Serial topic Adnan Syed reversed

The life sentence of Adnan Syed, topic of the favored true-crime podcast Serial, was overturned by a Baltimore choose after Syed spent 23 years behind bars.

Syed, 41, was ordered to be launched Monday. He was sentenced to life in jail on the age of 17 over the alleged homicide of his classmate and former girlfriend Hae Min Lee. He maintained his innocence all through, claiming he wasn't given a good trial. On Monday, Circuit Courtroom Choose Melissa Phinn introduced Syed was to be launched, in line with the Related Press.

Earlier in September, prosecutors put ahead the advice, saying, "The state now not has confidence within the integrity of the conviction." A yearlong investigation by prosecutors and Syed's attorneys that concluded Wednesday discovered that "important reliability points concerning probably the most vital items of proof" had been discovered, together with the identification of "two various suspects."

One of many vital items of proof with reliability points cited was "unreliable cellular phone tower knowledge," in line with State's Legal professional Marilyn Mosby's workplace, to which a complete episode of Serial was devoted. Host Sarah Koenig discovered that the decision logs didn't match up with the testimonies of a key witness.

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The debut of the 2014 podcast Serial, which reexamined the proof of the homicide and poked holes within the case in opposition to Syed, resulted in an explosion of curiosity in his case. Eight years later, the state introduced the lack of religion within the case, overturning it, in line with the New York Occasions.

Serial received a Peabody Award and is broadly thought-about revolutionary in popularizing podcasts, in line with the Related Press.