Follow updates on the case of Serial podcast subject Adnan Syed.

Adnan Syed walked out of court a free man on Monday after two handwritten notes featuring the name of another potential suspect was discovered earlier this year, it has been revealed.

Serial, the podcast which propelled the case to global attention and first raised doubts about Syed’s conviction, released a new episde on Tuesday revealing what finally led Baltimore prosecutors to rethink the 41-year-old’s conviction for the 1999 murder of his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee.

In the episode, journalist Sarah Koenig said that “messy” notes which languished in statet trial boxes for more than two decades revealed that two different people had placed two separate phone calls alerting prosecutors to the unnamed suspect prior to Syed’s 2000 conviction.

On Monday, Judge Melissa Phinn overturned Syed’s conviction and ordered him to be released – after 23 years behind bars.

The discovery of two handwritten notes about another potential suspect ultimately led to Adnan Syed’s conviction being tossed, according to a newly released Serial episode.

The “messy” notes, which were found deep within boxes of files on the case earlier this year, revealed that two different people had placed two separate phone calls alerting prosecutors to the unnamed suspect prior to Syed’s 2000 conviction.

Despite the tipoffs, the notes were not shared with Syed’s legal team and instead sat gathering dust in boxes inside the state attorney’s office for the past 23 years – all the while Syed was holed up behind bars for a crime he says he didn’t commit.

On Monday, a judge overturned Syed’s conviction and he walked out of court a free man?

With Adnan Syed’s conviction now quashed, questions remain around what happens next.

Prominent attorney Duncan Levin tellsThe Independent he thinks this marks the ‘end of the road’ for Adnan Syed’s two-decade long legal battle.

Adnan Syed walked free from the Baltimore courthouse on Monday when a judge vacated his sentence – 23 years after he was first put behind bars.

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has pushed back against the argument that there were Brady violations in the case of Adnan Syed.

“Over 23 years later Adnan Syed, an innocent man serving a life sentence is finally seeing freedom.

The host of the Serial podcast has said that Adnan Syed’s case involves “just about every chronic problem” in the criminal justice system.

Journalist Sarah Koenig released a new episode in the series on Tuesday – one day after Syed walked out of court a free man following the vacating of his murder conviction.

The year after the release of Serial, Syed was granted a new hearing, allowing his defence team to bring forward new evidence in the case.

In 2022, Syed’s conviction was overturned by a judge at the request of the prosecution who cited serious issues with the original case.

Adnan Syed, who was 17 at the time, had Lee on and off but, not long before she was killed, she had broken up with him and begun dating someone else.

An attorney representing Making a Murderer’s Brendan Dassey has spoken out about Adnan Syed’s case as she vowed not to let her client spend 23 years behind bars for a crime he says he didn’t commit.

Just as Syed’s case shot to international attention through the hit podcast Serial, Dassey and Avery’s case was chronicled in the popular Netflix documentary Making a Murderer – with both series spearheading the wave of the true crime drama?

“Adnan Syed had to wait 23 years, despite the world fighting for him.

Adnan Syed walks out of court after his sentence was overturned