Georgetown hired Syed, who was freed after 23 years in a Maryland prison, as a program associate for the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative.
One of his responsibilities will be working with the initiative’s “Making an Exoneree” class, during which students reinvestigate decades-old wrongful convictions and create short documentaries about the cases to “help bring innocent people home from prison.”
His case rose to international prominence after the famed podcast “Serial” documented his legal saga. Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s office also used that hearing to discredit much of the original evidence that the jury used to find Syed guilty. State prosecutors and judges formerly involved in the case have disputed those claims.
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