A Maryland judge has granted a request to reopen the trial of Adnan Syed, a Baltimore man whose first-degree murder conviction in 2000 became the subject of ‘Serial,’ the most popular podcast in 2014. Mr. Syed was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee after her body was found in a park. Although Syed has always claimed his innocence, prosecutors convicted the then-17-year-old based on cellphone tower data that linked Syed to the Baltimore park where Ms. Lee's body was found. Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Martin Welch granted a post-conviction hearing for Syed on Friday, after a cell phone expert and a potential alibi...
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