BALTIMORE -- A defence lawyer's failure to call an alibi witness was a key point of contention as a convicted murderer returned to court Wednesday to argue he deserves a new trial in a case that gained fresh notoriety through the podcast "Serial." A three-day hearing began in Baltimore for 35-year-old Adnan Syed, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of his high school girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in 1999. Syed's attorney Justin Brown told Judge Martin Welch that previous defence attorney Cristina Gutierrez...
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