March 8 (UPI) -- Maryland's highest court on Friday reinstated Serial podcast subject Adnan Syed's 20-year-old murder conviction, denying him a new trial for the death of his high school girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.
The Maryland Court of Appeals' ruling reverses last year's decision by a lower court. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals voted 2-1 in favor of a new trial for Syed in March 2018 because his lawyer during his initial trial, Cristina Gutierrez, provided insufficient counsel by failing to call an alibi witness, Asia McClain Chapman.