Hae Min Lee's family appealing decision to vacate Adnan Syed's murder conviction in "Serial" case
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The family of Hae Min Lee, a Maryland teen who was murdered in 1999, is appealing a court's decision to vacate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed. Syed, who maintains his innocence, was convicted of Lee's murder in 2000, and the crime became the subject of the hit podcast "Serial."
Syed was released from prison earlier this month after a Baltimore judge vacated his conviction, with the support of prosecutors, after years of appeals and media coverage raised questions about the case. He is now under home detention.
Lee and Syed dated while they were students at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland. They broke up prior to Lee's disappearance in 1999. Weeks later, Lee's body was found in a park Baltimore. An autopsy determined she had died of manual strangulation.
