Officials escort ‘Serial’ podcast subject Adnan Syed from the courthouse on February 3, 2016.
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The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will not hear an appeal from Adnan Syed, whose 2000 murder conviction was the focus of the first season of the popular audio show “Serial.”
The decision was announced in an order with no noted dissents.
Syed was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of his on-and-off girlfriend Hae Min Lee while the two were both attending high school in Maryland and Syed was 17 years old. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Prosecutors said that Syed strangled Lee in the parking lot of a Best Buy after school one day and then buried her body in Baltimore’s Leakin Park. Syed was motivated by Lee dumping him two weeks before the murder, they said.
Syed’s attorneys urged the court to reverse his conviction on the grounds that his original attorney failed to present crucial evidence in his defense.
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