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Prosecutors DROP All Charges Against Adnan Syed<!-- wp:html --><p>Lloyd Fox/Getty</p> <p><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-adnan-syed-charges-dropped-20221011-r43q45csdnhi3abqygnhimqouq-story.html">Baltimore prosecutors announced Tuesday</a> that they had dropped all charges against Adnan Syed, the first subject of the award-winning podcast “Serial,” who was serving time for the 1999 murder of his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee.</p> <p>Last month, Syed’s life sentence was vacated by a Baltimore City Circuit Court after a year-long investigation by the Baltimore City State’s Attorney Office and Syed’s legal team uncovered two alternative suspects—one of which was never disclosed to Syed’s defense attorneys—and new evidence.</p> <p><em>More to come</em></p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/baltimore-prosecutors-drop-charges-against-serial-subject-adnan-syed-in-1999-murder-of-hae-min-lee?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Baltimore prosecutors announced Tuesday that they had dropped all charges against Adnan Syed, the first subject of the award-winning podcast “Serial,” who was serving time for the 1999 murder of his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee.

Last month, Syed’s life sentence was vacated by a Baltimore City Circuit Court after a year-long investigation by the Baltimore City State’s Attorney Office and Syed’s legal team uncovered two alternative suspects—one of which was never disclosed to Syed’s defense attorneys—and new evidence.

More to come

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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