Maryland's top court reinstates Adnan Syed's murder conviction

>But in March 2023, an appeals court reinstated his conviction after finding that the lower court had failed to give Young Lee, Ms Lee's brother, sufficient notice of the hearing that freed Syed.

>In a 4-3 opinion, Maryland's Supreme Court on Friday upheld this decision, saying the lower court judge had “worked an injustice” by not giving Young Lee reasonable notice of the hearing.

Absurd reason to reinstate a conviction. There should be a double indemnity-like rule for being released from prison.

This is the guy from serial. I vividly remember listening to this whole podcast as an amateur reporter retold the whole story, only to be shocked and horrified that I had wasted my time because he was obviously involved and almost certainly guilty.

Adnan knew exactly where the body was buried, but for hours this podcast investigated the tiniest of minuteua (who placed a call from outside a grocery store at what hour? How many times had the cellphone pinged at that location? Was his lawyer too old?) all while suggesting his friend "Jay" may have been involved [even though Adnan was adamant he wasn't].

To me it was a fascinating story about how somebody can fall for a conman/murderer's story despite really obvious evidence after an unreasonable amount of personal contact (I think she said she talked to Adnan every day for hours a day).

Not that justice is always served by our criminal court system; it certainly has many flaws and failures. But all the more reason to be ashamed about drawing our attention to one of the cases that's pretty open-and-shut.

The wheels of justice slowly move back in the right direction. It's clear that someone in his family committed the murder, whether it is Adnan or his father, or else he would not have had to bury Hae. The father would be the obvious suspect from the state's honor killing hypothesis, and Adnan is the other obvious suspect because he's the only person witnessed with the body.