BREAKING: Prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed in connection with the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, weeks after Syed’s conviction was overturned.
Lloyd Fox / Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesBaltimore prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against Adnan Syed in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee after DNA evidence supported his innocence, officials said.Syed was sentenced to life behind bars in 2000 for the murder of Lee, his former girlfriend, and his case gained national attention in 2014 from the podcast “Serial."The decision to drop the charges came after DNA testing results “excluded Mr.
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby will have a press conference announcing the decision to drop the charges at 1 p.m.The news caps a more than two-decade saga for Syed, throughout which he maintained his innocence. Phinn said evidence uncovered since the trial would have added “substantial and significant probability that the result would have been different.”
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