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Adnan Syed's name has become known worldwide off the back of Serial. Hosted by journalist Sarah Koenig and first launched in 2014, it has been widely lauded as one of the most popular podcasts of all time; dominating the number one spot on iTunes for over three months and breaking the record as the fastest podcast ever to reach 5 million downloads. Impressive, huh?
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Serial's first 12 episodes were dedicated to investigating the 1999 murder of 18-year-old high school student Hae Min Lee. Her body was discovered in Leakin Park in Baltimore, Maryland. A few weeks later, her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Masud Syed, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. On February 25, 2000, after a six-week trial (his second, as the first was a mistrial), Syed was found guilty of Lee's murder. He has always maintained his innocence. Serialpodcast.org Related: The first episode of the Serial podcast, which was released on October 3, 2014, began to investigate the events surrounding Hae's murder.
The series, which brought updates each week, also explored the idea of whether or not Adnan had been wrongly convicted of the crime – from the beginning, host Sarah Koenig said that she did not know which way her investigation would go. A few weeks after series one came to a close, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals filed a decision to allow Adnan to appeal his conviction. In 2016, Adnan's first degree murder conviction on the grounds that he had not been fairly represented by his attorney during his 2000 trial.
Home; The Blue and Gold. AP Literature & Composition 2017 - 2018. Season 1 of the Serial podcast. Now that we have listened to the first five episodes of Serial, you are going to share your (evidence-based) questions, theories, and opinions.
Adnan Syed has been granted a new trial. Judge Welch's order: — Serial (@serial) Related: This basically meant that the guilty verdict against him had been set aside, as if it had never happened. Prosecutors could then push for another trial, if they still wanted to try him for the crime. 'Last week, when I saw the news that Judge Martin P Welch granted Adnan a new trial, I happened to be on Skype with our executive producer Julie Snyder, and both of us did exactly the same involuntary thing of sucking in our breath and then putting our hands over our mouths,' Serial host Sarah Koenig on the podcast's website, in. 'We weren't so much shocked because of the legal arguments, but because it was such a longshot, this outcome.'