Adnan Syed, the focus of the first season of the hit podcast Serial, has been denied a retrial . The highest court in Maryland, the Court of Appeals, overturned a ruling to grant Syed a new trial and vacate his previous murder conviction.
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The question of whether Adnan Syed killed Hae Min Lee was on everyone's minds in 2014. The murder may have taken place 20 years ago, but the surprise success of podcast Serial, in which Sarah Koenig interviewed Syed in jail, placed it back on the news …
Nearly five years after Serial first aired and raised questions about the murder conviction against Adnan Syed, HBO is picking up the story to lay out more details about the crime and conviction.
In 1999, Hae Min Lee, a high school student from Baltimore went missing, and was later discovered murdered. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was accused of the crime and imprisoned – but some details didn't quite add up.