STORY "Adnan Syed granted new trial in ‘Serial’ case as his sentence is vacated, , published by the Washington Post on
The entire story can be found at:
Seee Wikipedia entry at the link below; "Season 1 investigated the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee (Hangul: 이해민), an 18-year-old student at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. She was last seen about 3 p.m. on January 13, 1999.[8] Her corpse was discovered on February 9 in Leakin Park and identified two days later. The case was immediately treated as a homicide.[9] Lee's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Masud Syed, was arrested on February 28 at 6 a.m. and charged with first-degree murder, which led to "some closure and some peace" for Lee's family.[10] A memorial service for Lee was held on March 11 at Woodlawn High School.[11] Syed's first trial ended in a mistrial, but after a six-week second trial, Syed was found guilty of Lee's murder on February 25, 2000[12] and given a life sentence, despite pleading his innocence.[13] Syed did not speak in front of the jury.
In February 2015, three weeks after the end of Season 1, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals filed a decision allowing Syed to appeal his conviction on grounds his attorney, Cristina Gutierrez, had provided ineffective counsel for failing to seek a plea bargain during his trial.[14] The Court also announced that another three-judge panel would address the question of whether new evidence from Asia McClain, providing an alibi for Syed, would be admitted.[14] On February 9, 2015, Scott Pelley of CBS News reported Serial's season one episodes had been downloaded more than 68 million times.[15] By February 2016, the episodes had been downloaded over 80 million times......... Introducing a PBS NewsHour segment about Serial, Judy Woodruff noted that it is "an unexpected phenomenon", and Hari Sreenivasan mentioned it has "five million downloads on iTunes, far more than any other podcast in history".[45] Calling the characters "rich and intriguing", The Daily Californian noted similarities to the film The Thin Blue Line (1988), and described the podcast as "gripping" and the story as "thrilling", while applauding the series for giving "listeners a unique opportunity to humanize the players".[46] Slate's reviewer pointed out that Serial is not escapist and went on to note: "Someone in the show is not telling the truth about something very sinister. That's the narrative tension that makes Serial not only compelling but also unlike anything I can remember watching or reading before."[26] The Baltimore Sun commented on the inherently riveting subject matter and noted that the top-notch reporting and podcast format yield "a novel twist on the investigative long-form piece".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(podcast)
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