Adnan Syed: All chargers dropped in Serial podcast case

US prosecutors person dropped each charges against a Baltimore antheral whose lawsuit garnered worldwide attraction done the deed existent transgression podcast Serial.

Adnan Syed served 23 years successful situation aft helium was convicted of the execution of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee.

But his condemnation was quashed past month, and connected Tuesday it was announced that each charges had been dropped.

"Finally, Adnan Syed is capable to unrecorded arsenic a escaped man," his lawyer, Erica Suter, said successful a statement.

"Adnan is guiltless and mislaid 23 years of his beingness serving clip for a transgression helium did not commit," she added.

The authorities lawyer volition clasp a property league and supply further details astatine 13:00 section clip (17:00 GMT).

The 41-year-old's condemnation was quashed past period aft prosecutors identified 2 different imaginable suspects pursuing a year-long lawsuit review.

Prosecutors past had 30 days to determine whether they would proceed with a caller proceedings oregon driblet the charges against Syed.

After the execution of his precocious schoolhouse classmate and ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee successful 1999, a assemblage recovered Syed blameworthy of premeditated murder, kidnapping, robbery and mendacious imprisonment.

Prosecutors argued helium was a scorned person who had strangled Ms Lee and hid her assemblage successful Baltimore's Leakin Park with the assistance of a friend. They relied successful portion connected mobile telephone determination information that has since been proven unreliable.

Syed has maintained his innocence since his condemnation and appealed the court's determination respective times, including a caller effort successful 2019. All of his applications were denied.

His communicative and the lawsuit was chronicled successful the wide palmy existent transgression podcast Serial, which formed uncertainty connected his guilt. Episodes of the amusement person been downloaded much than 340 cardinal times.

Baltimore's authorities attorney's bureau has studied the lawsuit implicit the past twelvemonth and concluded that Syed deserved a caller trial.

They said they lacked "confidence successful the integrity of the conviction" and identified 2 caller suspects who had been known to constabulary since the murder.

The condemnation was past quashed connected 20 September "in the involvement of fairness and justice", said Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn.