'Serial' podcast subject Adnan Syed will face a new trial, appeals court rules by on Mar 29, 2018, 1:31 PM Advertisement
 - Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was the subject of the hit podcast "Serial," was granted a new trial by a Maryland appeals court on Thursday.
- Syed was convicted in 2000 of killing Hae Min Lee, his high school sweetheart.
- The podcast, hosted by NPR's Sarah Koenig, cast doubt on Syed's guilt and questioned whether all evidence and witnesses had been properly introduced at his original trial.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland appeals court has upheld a ruling granting a new trial to a man whose conviction in the murder of his high school sweetheart became the subject of the popular podcast "Serial." Adnan Syed was convicted in 2000 of killing Hae Min Lee and burying her body in a shallow grave in a Baltimore park. A three-judge panel on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling granting him new trial. Syed’s story was widely publicized in the 2014 "Serial" podcast, which cast doubt on his guilt. The show attracted millions of listeners and shattered podcast records. A lower court judge vacated Syed’s conviction in 2016, citing his attorney’s failure to cross-examine a key witness. Prosecutors appealed to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the state’s intermediate appeals court. SEE ALSO: Teenage girls are sending the Florida shooting suspect love letters and bikini pictures — and his lawyers refuse to show them to him DON'T MISS: 'I wish I were sorry but I am not': The suspected Austin bomber said in his confession tape he believed he was a psychopath
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