A Maryland appeals court has reinstated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction, after finding that a lower court violated the victim’s family right to attend the hearing to vacate the conviction.
Syed, the subject of the “Serial” podcast, had his conviction tossed out by a circuit court and the state’s attorney’s office dropped charges before he was freed last fall.
Syed, who is now 41, had been serving a life sentence for the past 23 years — more than half his life — since his arrest in 1999.
Adnan Syed, center, leaves the Cummings Courthouse on Sept. 19, 2022, in Baltimore.
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