A Maryland appeals court has reinstated Adnan Syed's murder conviction, after finding that a lower court violated the victim’s family right to attend the hearing to vacate the conviction.

Syed, the subject of the “Serial” podcast, had his conviction tossed out by a circuit court and the state’s attorney’s office.

Syed, who is now 41, had been serving a life sentence for the past 23 years -- more than half his life -- since his arrest in 1999.

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