Adnan Syed gets a new trial Yesterday, Adnan Syed, whose conviction and life sentence for the murder of his high-school girlfriend was the focus of the first season of the hit podcast Serial,got the news he had been waiting to hear for over 16 years Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Martin P. Welch, who presided over Syed"s post-conviction relief hearing in February, vacated his convictionand granted him a...