'Serial' Podcast Subject Adnan Syed to Get New Hearing

Adnan Syed, whose case gained notoriety as the subject of the popular "Serial" podcast, has been granted a new chance to clear his name in the 1999 murder of his former high school girlfriend hae Min Lee.

A Baltimore judge granted a motion Friday to reopen Syed's case and allow new evidence to be presented, including allowing a jury to hear testimony from possible alibi witness Asia McClain, a high school friend whose account of seeing Syed in a library at the time of the suspected murder was documented on the podcast.

Syed's current attorney has argued that trial lawyer Cristina Gutierrez failed to contact McClain as an alibi witness. Gutierrez was later disbarred.

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