Prosecutors have dropped charges against Adnan Syed in the 1999 death of Hae Min Lee, the case chronicled in the hit podcast 'Serial,' a lawyer says.
Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the first season of the hit podcast “Serial,” according to a lawyer affiliated with Syed’s case.
, tweeted: “Breaking news: After the latest round of DNA testing generated results that, like previous rounds of testing, excluded Adnan Syed, he has now been formally exonerated!”, where the 41-year-old had spent more than two decades. Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn also gave prosecutors 30 days to decide whether to retry Syed or drop the charges.
Last week, Maryland Atty. Gen. Brian Frosh’s office filed court papers supporting the appeal by Lee’s family. One of the suspects had threatened Lee, saying that “he would make her disappear. He would kill her,” according to a court filing.Consider ‘Gaslit,’ ‘The Thing About Pam,’ ‘Dr. Death,’ ‘The Shrink Next Door’ and ‘The Dropout’ all began as podcasts. And then there’s ‘Only Murders in the Building,’ which plays on the podcast fixation.
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