Syed was cleared of all charges in 2022, after prosecutors said he had been wrongfully convicted of strangling and killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. But in March 2023, an appeals court reinstated ...
Now the Maryland Supreme Court, after hearing arguments on all sides, has upheld Syed’s reinstated conviction. At issue was the question of whether Lee’s brother, Young Lee, her family’s ...
The court concluded that in an effort to remedy what was perceived to be an injustice to Syed, prosecutors and a lower court “worked an injustice” against Lee’s brother, Young Lee.
The court said the initial hearing violated her brother Young Lee’s right as a crime victim’s representative to participate. The court’s 4-3 ruling does not require Syed, who was freed ...
The court concluded that in an effort to remedy what was perceived to be an injustice to Syed, prosecutors and a lower court “worked an injustice” against Lee’s brother, Young Lee.
But in March 2023, an appeals court reinstated his conviction after finding that the lower court had failed to give Young Lee, Ms Lee's brother, sufficient notice of the hearing that freed Syed.
3, 2023, before the intermediate Appellate Court of Maryland even ruled in Young Lee’s favor, leading to dueling appeals to the Supreme Court from both Syed and Lee that culminated in Friday’s ...
But the problem, as the Supreme Court of Maryland saw it, is that Lee’s brother, Young Lee, wasn’t properly afforded his rights in connection with the 2022 hearing that freed Syed.