Serial Subject Adnan Syed Is Getting a New Trial
Retired Baltimore Circuit Judge Martin Welch granted Syed a new trial Thursday, a result of Syed's petition for a new trial in May following new evidence that surfaced during a post-conviction hearing in January.
Syed, 35, was convicted for murdering his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 2000 after her body was found buried in a shallow grave in a Baltimore park the year before.
The first attempt, in 2014, hinged on the argument that Syed's original attorney Cristina Gutierrez failed to challenge cell-phone data that placed Syed at the scene of the crime or reach out to key witness Asia McClain Chapman, who offered an alibi for Syed at the time of the murder.