HBO has released an update to its 2019 series The Case Against Adnan Syed that outlines the end of the saga of a man who was imprisoned in 2000 at the age 18 after being convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in a Baltimore park in 1999. Syed’s case was made famous by the 2014 podcast Serial , which won a Peabody Award for its investigation that explored whether Syed was wrongfully convicted.

Six years after the HBO documentary traced Lee’s murder, Syed’s conviction, and the impact of Serial , the new episode in the series shadows Syed as he’s released from prison in 2022 after serving 23 years. That freedom was short-lived, however. In 2023, six months after his release, the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, agreed with Hae Min Lee’s fam

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