Adnan Syed’s journey through the court system is getting a final act. It’s on a technicality, but one that is of great importance to the family of murder victim Hae Min Lee. On Tuesday, the Maryland Appellate Court reinstated Syed’s conviction for Lee’s murder, deciding that a lower court had violated the right of Lee’s brother, Young Lee, to attend a hearing, held last October, where prosecutors announced they were dropping charges against him.
Steve Kelly, a lawyer for the Lee family spoke out at...
Steve Kelly, a lawyer for the Lee family spoke out at...
- 3/28/2023
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
The family of murdered high school student Hae Min Lee has requested an evidentiary hearing regarding the decision to vacate the conviction of Adnan Syed in her death, claiming prosecutors treated the family in a “callous and unconstitutional manner” by not giving them enough notice or an opportunity to comment on the decision. Steve Kelly, an attorney for the family, says that while a reversal of the decision is unlikely, “We need a public airing of this stuff, if for no other reason than accountability and transparency in the criminal justice process.
- 10/28/2022
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
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After director Amy Berg premiered her 2019 docuseries The Case Against Adnan Syed on HBO, she says “it was really difficult for me to let go.”
The four-part series probed further into a story that rocketed to fame after it was chronicled on the Serial podcast a few years earlier, about Baltimore County teenager Adnan Syed’s 2000 conviction in the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. While Serial cast doubt on prosecutors’ original case against Syed and Berg’s film uncovered further cause for concern, two days before Berg’s series aired, the Maryland Court of Appeals denied Syed a new trial. “It just felt like the most unsatisfying ending of any film I’ve ever made,” Berg says.
Now, Berg has the chance to film a new ending to the series. On Tuesday, prosecutors dropped charges against Syed in the 1999 murder of Lee,...
After director Amy Berg premiered her 2019 docuseries The Case Against Adnan Syed on HBO, she says “it was really difficult for me to let go.”
The four-part series probed further into a story that rocketed to fame after it was chronicled on the Serial podcast a few years earlier, about Baltimore County teenager Adnan Syed’s 2000 conviction in the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. While Serial cast doubt on prosecutors’ original case against Syed and Berg’s film uncovered further cause for concern, two days before Berg’s series aired, the Maryland Court of Appeals denied Syed a new trial. “It just felt like the most unsatisfying ending of any film I’ve ever made,” Berg says.
Now, Berg has the chance to film a new ending to the series. On Tuesday, prosecutors dropped charges against Syed in the 1999 murder of Lee,...
- 10/13/2022
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After over two decades, Baltimore prosecutors have dropped all charges against Adnan Syed following his recent release from prison. The subject of the first season of Sarah Koenig's "Serial" podcast had his murder conviction in the case of the 1999 killing of Baltimore Woodlawn High School student Hae Min Lee vacated on Sept. 19, ABC News reported. Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby and Sentencing Review Unit (Sru) Chief Becky Feldman had filed a motion on Sept. 14 announcing they would file for the conviction to be vacated and for Syed to potentially receive a new trial.
"Since the inception of my administration, my prosecutors have been sworn to not only aggressively advocate on behalf of the victims of crime, but in the pursuit of justice, - when the evidence exists- to correct the wrongs of the past where doubt is evident," said Mosby in a Sept. 14 statement. "For that reason, after...
"Since the inception of my administration, my prosecutors have been sworn to not only aggressively advocate on behalf of the victims of crime, but in the pursuit of justice, - when the evidence exists- to correct the wrongs of the past where doubt is evident," said Mosby in a Sept. 14 statement. "For that reason, after...
- 10/11/2022
- by Mekishana Pierre
- Popsugar.com
Baltimore prosecutors have dropped their charges against Adnan Syed, subject of the hit 2014 podcast Serial, who was in prison for 23 years for the murder of his high school ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. His conviction was vacated last month, and prosecutors have said they will not pursue another trial.
The Maryland Office of the Public Defender announced the decision Tuesday morning, saying DNA test results had confirmed Syed’s innocence. At an afternoon press conference, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said her office had found Syed was wrongfully convicted, and...
The Maryland Office of the Public Defender announced the decision Tuesday morning, saying DNA test results had confirmed Syed’s innocence. At an afternoon press conference, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said her office had found Syed was wrongfully convicted, and...
- 10/11/2022
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
Baltimore prosecutors have filed a motion to overturn Adnan Syed's conviction. More than 20 years after Syed was sentenced to life in prison for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend and high school classmate, Hae Min Lee, Baltimore City state's attorney Marilyn Mosby and chief of the Sentencing Review Unit, Becky Feldman, have announced they've taken the steps to request a new trial and vacate his conviction after a year-long investigation. According to a Sept. 14 press release, their year-long inspection revealed "undisclosed and newly-developed information regarding two alternative suspects, as well as unreliable cell phone tower...
- 9/15/2022
- E! Online
Baltimore prosecutors have filed a motion to vacate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, which could result in the now-42-year-old Syed — the focus of the hit true crime podcast Serial — either receiving a new trial or being released from his life prison sentence entirely.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the motion was filed on behalf of the the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office following a year-long investigation — conducted alongside the defense — that uncovered new evidence and opened the possibility that two other suspects were perhaps involved...
According to the Wall Street Journal, the motion was filed on behalf of the the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office following a year-long investigation — conducted alongside the defense — that uncovered new evidence and opened the possibility that two other suspects were perhaps involved...
- 9/14/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Camilla Hall’s debut documentary, “Copwatch,” wants viewers to know these names: Dave Whitt. Ramsey Orta. Kevin Moore. Not because these men of color have been lost to police violence but because they documented it.
Ramsey Orta trained his cellphone on the arrest of Eric Garner as NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo applied the lethal (and banned) chokehold that killed the man from Staten Island, N.Y., in July 2014. Onetime Canfield Green Apartments resident Dave Whitt began recording on his phone in the immediate aftermath of police officer Darren Wilson’s killing of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, 2014. Kevin Moore grabbed his cellphone when his dad — hearing distressed screams from the street — shouted for him to come; Moore documented the arrest of Freddie Gray, who died in Baltimore police custody in April 2015.
Last week, the We Are One online film festival added the doc — which Variety reviewed when it...
Ramsey Orta trained his cellphone on the arrest of Eric Garner as NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo applied the lethal (and banned) chokehold that killed the man from Staten Island, N.Y., in July 2014. Onetime Canfield Green Apartments resident Dave Whitt began recording on his phone in the immediate aftermath of police officer Darren Wilson’s killing of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, 2014. Kevin Moore grabbed his cellphone when his dad — hearing distressed screams from the street — shouted for him to come; Moore documented the arrest of Freddie Gray, who died in Baltimore police custody in April 2015.
Last week, the We Are One online film festival added the doc — which Variety reviewed when it...
- 6/7/2020
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
An officer with the Baltimore Police Department has resigned after he was captured on video repeatedly punching a civilian, who was later hospitalized for a broken or fractured jaw and injuries to his eye socket, nose, ribs and left leg. While the Bpd has declined to release the name of the now-former officer, he was identified on social media over the weekend following the incident as Arthur Williams. Attorney Warren Brown, who is representing the victim, Dashawn McGrier, later confirmed Williams’ identity to the Baltimore Sun. Williams’ partner that day,...
- 8/13/2018
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
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