Chapman wrote a pair of letters and sent them to Syed in jail days after the man’s arrest, detailing their meeting. Retired Baltimore Circuit Judge Martin Welch ruled Thursday that Adnan Syed, 35, deserved a new trial in the case that became the focus of the podcast, which captivated millions of listeners around the world . The podcast, which debuted in the winter of 2014, attracted millions of listeners and shattered records for the number of times a podcast has been streamed and downloaded. During the extensive hearing, defence attorneys and prosecutors called witnesses and vigorously cross-examined others. Syed was convicted in 2000 of murdering Hae Min Lee a year earlier and burying her in a shallow grave in a park in northwest Baltimore.

Source: thestar June 30, 2016 20:58 UTC