Appeal against retrial for man at centre of Serial podcast

A judge was wrong to consider "a novel standalone claim" about the reliability of mobile phone tracking evidence in granting a new trial for a man whose murder conviction was re-examined in the popular Serial podcast, the Maryland attorney general's office said.

The podcast attracted millions of listeners who became armchair detectives as the series analysed the case of Adnan Syed for weeks in the winter of 2014.