Serial's Adnan Syed has been granted a new trial

Adnan Syed, the subject of This American Life's 2014 Serial podcast, has been granted a new trial, The Baltimore Sun reports. Syed was convicted in 2000 of first-degree murder when he was just 19 years old.
In 1999, Syed's ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee was found dead in a Baltimore park. In order to reach a conviction, the prosecution relied heavily on the testimony of a single witness who claimed to be with Syed when he committed the murder. Serial painted the prosecutor's timeline of the even