The Baltimore City State Attorney’s Office dropped charges Tuesday against Adnan Syed in connection with the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, weeks after his murder conviction in the case was overturned.
Syed was sentenced to life behind bars in 2000, and his case gained national notoriety from the podcast “Serial” in 2014.
His conviction was overturned because trial prosecutors did not properly turn over evidence to defense lawyers that could have helped them show someone else killed Lee. He was released from prison on Sept. 19.
The Baltimore City State Attorney’s Office then weighed whether to retry him or dismiss the charges.
The State Attorney’s Office confirmed Tuesday morning that the charges were dropped, and said further details would come in the afternoon.
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