A Maryland appeals court on Tuesday denied a request by Adnan Syed’s lawyer to reconsider its recent decision toThe Appellate Court of Maryland reinstated the conviction in March in a ruling that upheld arguments from the victim’s family claiming a lower court violated their rights.saying that the three-judge panel that made the initial ruling denied Syed’s motion, “because it is based on an argument not previously raised.
But the victim’s family said they received insufficient notice to attend the September vacatur hearing in person, which violated their right to be “treated with dignity and respect,” and the state’s intermediate appellate court agreed. In a 2-1 decision that was stayed for 60 days, the judgesSyed was 17 when his high school ex-girlfriend and classmate, Hae Min Lee, was found strangled to death and buried in a makeshift grave in 1999.