Attorneys for Adnan Syed, whose legal case was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial,” are seeking to have his prison sentence reduced.
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Syed was released when a Baltimore judge overturned his conviction in response to a request from prosecutors who said they found flaws in the evidence. But in August, Maryland's Supreme Courta lower court decision that reinstated Syed’s conviction while allowing him to remain free pending a new hearing about whether he should have been released.The court said the victim’s family didn’t receive adequate notice to allow them to attend the original hearing in person.
She was found strangled to death and buried in an unmarked grave in 1999. Syed was 17 at the time and was sentenced to life in prison, plus 30 years.
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