Syed’s story was widely publicized in the 2014 “Serial” podcast, which cast doubt on his guilt and inspired armchair investigators to unearth new information. Adnan Syed was convicted in 2000 of killing Hae Min Lee and burying her body in a shallow grave in a Baltimore park. We’re ready to try the case,” Brown said. In a dissenting opinion, Judge Kathryn Grill Graeff disagreed with the majority, saying Syed had failed to overcome the presumption that his trial lawyer’s failure to contact McClain was based on reasonable trial strategy. Graeff said she would have reversed the lower court’s ruling granting Syed a new trial.

Source: thestar March 29, 2018 18:11 UTC