Adnan Syed, the subject of hit crime podcast Serial whose murder conviction was vacated earlier this year, has landed a job with Georgetown University.
The DC-based University announced Thursday that Syed has joined Georgetowns Prisons and Justice Initiative as a program associate where he will support inmates and prison reform efforts.
To go from prison to being a Georgetown student and then to actually be on campus on a pathway to work for Georgetown at the Prisons and Justice Initiative, its a full circle moment, Syed said in a statement.
Syed, 41, was found guilty of killing ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999 after she was found strangled to death and buried in a Baltimore park — but he and his family have always maintained his innocence.
He was 17 years old at the time. Syed has taken a position at Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative.Getty Images/iStockphoto
His case grabbed national attention after it was chronicled in the first season of the award-winning audio series Serial in 2014, shocking American audiences.
A judge tossed Syeds conviction on Sept. 19 and ordered him released based on DNA evidence after he spent more than two decades behind bars.
Prosecutor salso said said a reinvestigation of the case revealed evidence regarding the possible involvement of two alternate suspects — and that the original prosecutors failed to disclose this to Syed’s defense team.
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