TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 29, 2023

A Maryland appellate court yesterday reinstated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction and ordered a new hearing, marking the latest development in a protracted case chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.” The appellate court found that the lower court failed to give sufficient notice to the victim’s family when it scheduled a hearing to vacate the conviction, the Associated Press reports. It gave defense attorneys 60 days to appeal. Syed was released from prison last September after more than two decades. Baltimore prosecutors moved to vacate the conviction after finding alternative suspects and that unreliable evidence was used at trial. Read TBA’s past coverage of the case.