TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Oct 11, 2022

Prosecutors in Baltimore today announced they have dropped charges against Adnan Syed in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee after additional DNA testing excluded him as a suspect, the Associated Press reports. Lee’s murder and Syed’s subsequent conviction were chronicled by the hit podcast “Serial” in 2014. “This case is over. There are no more appeals necessary,” Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for the city of Baltimore said. She also said her office would continue to pursue justice for Lee. A Baltimore judge last month overturned Syed’s conviction and ordered him released to home detention. Syed spent 23 years in prison on the murder conviction.