Adnan Syed - subject of the first season of podcast phenomenon, Serial - has been granted a new trial.
The news was announced by Syed's lawyer, Justin Brown in an enthusiastic tweet yesterday:
— Justin Brown (@CJBrownLaw) June 30, 2016
Syed has so far spent 16 years in prison after being convicted of the murder of Hae Min Lee in 2000. He has maintained his innocence throughout that time. The new trial was granted after a Baltimore judge decided Syed's original lawyer should have cross-examined an expert witness about cell phone towers near the victim's burial site
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The news was announced by Syed's lawyer, Justin Brown in an enthusiastic tweet yesterday:
— Justin Brown (@CJBrownLaw) June 30, 2016
Syed has so far spent 16 years in prison after being convicted of the murder of Hae Min Lee in 2000. He has maintained his innocence throughout that time. The new trial was granted after a Baltimore judge decided Syed's original lawyer should have cross-examined an expert witness about cell phone towers near the victim's burial site
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