#breaking: Baltimore prosecutors have asked a judge to vacate Adnan Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, as well as to release Syed from prison ahead of a new trial. In March, prosecutors agreed to allow additional DNA testing that was not available in 2000. A recent investigation co-led by the prosecution and defense has uncovered two other suspects. The investigation also found that the grassy lot where police found Lee’s car in #Baltimore was behind the house of a suspect’s relative. This does not mean that #AdnanSyed will not be convicted again, but that there is enough doubt about the evidence to require another trial. The motion also questions the validity of using cell phone records and data as such a key part of the prosecution in the original trial. “The State no longer has confidence in the integrity of the conviction,” said the office of Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to WSJ. Syed is serving a life sentence after courts convicted him of first-degree murder, robbery, kidnapping, and false imprisonment in February 2000 for the strangling and killing of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. He was 17 at the time of the crime, but was charged as an adult. The pair were seniors at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County in January 1999 when Lee disappeared. Her body was discovered in a city forest three weeks later. Syed is #PakistaniAmerican; Lee was #KoreanAmerican. Syed, now 41, has maintained his innocence and has been appealing his conviction for years. The viral 2014 “Serial” podcast and 2019 HBO documentary questioned his conviction, though failed to come to a conclusion about his innocence. In 2018, a special appeals court ruled Syed deserved a new trial, but Maryland’s highest court reversed that decision. Hae Min Lee’s family maintains that justice was delivered the first time and that #Adnan Syed is guilty.