Prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed in ‘Serial’ case

Adnan Syed (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun/AP)

Prosecutors have dropped charges against Adnan Syed over the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the first season of the hit podcast Serial.

Emily Witty, a spokeswoman for the US city of Baltimore’s state’s attorney’s office, said in an email that her office had dropped its case against Syed and would release further details about its decision later on Tuesday.