Serial raised a number of questions about Syed’s case, though host Sarah Koenig ultimately did not come to a conclusion about his guilt or innocence.

The podcast documented questionable police practices and evidence in the case. But the new trial was ultimately granted after a judge ruled that Syed’s former attorney gave him “ineffective assistance” for failing to properly cross-examine a state witness about the “reliability of cell-tower location evidence.”

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