Adnan Syed’s charges are DROPPED weeks after his murder conviction for killing girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999 was vacated in case chronicled by hit podcast Serial

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Prosecutors have dropped murder charges against Adnan Syed in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial, Your Content has learned.

Baltimore prosecutors on Tuesday dropped murder charges against Adnan Syed.

He served 23 years behind bars in the 1999 killing of girlfriend Hae Min Lee.

But judge last month reversed his conviction and ordered his release.

Prosecutors had to decide whether to hold a new trial or drop the charges.

The case was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial in 2014,‘according to U.S News.

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