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Adnan Syed, the man whose murder conviction was at the center of the podcast 'Serial', has won a new trial in Baltimore after 16 years. Syed was convicted of murdering his former high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999 and burying her in a park. He was sentenced to life in prison. Baltimore Circuit Judge Martin Welch ruled Thursday that Syed deserves another trial because his attorney failed to cross-examine a cell tower expert about the reliability of data that placed Syed's cellphone near the burial site. Welch wrote in his opinion that Syed's trial attorney 'rendered ineffective assistance when she failed to cross-examine the state's expert regarding the reliability of cell tower evidence'.

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Upon hearing the news, C. Justin Brown, Syed's attorney took to Twitter to write: 'WE WON A NEW TRIAL FOR ADNAN SYED! Scroll down for video. Upon learning that a new trial had been grant, Syed's attorney C. Justin Brown took to Twitter with a very simple message According to, Brown said at a press conference Thursday afternoon that he doesn't think the retrial could have come about without 'Serial'. On the chance of Syed being released, Brown said: 'I’m feeling pretty confident right now.

This was the biggest hurdle. It’s really hard to get a new trial.' Yusuf Syed, Adnan's brother, said the family was 'feeling great' about the news. 'I had a feeling in my heart it was going to happen,' he told the. 'We are just very happy. It's not only a win for us but a win for a lot of people who are stuck in the system because it opened a lot of people's eyes about the justice system.'

Sarah Koenig, who was behind Serial, has yet to comment on the ruling. The ruling comes four months after Brown argued in court that the original defense was crippled by the omission of Asia Chapman, a former classmate of Syed. Brown argued that Chapman's testimony could have potentially altered the outcome of the case. Just a year after Syed's conviction, Cristina Gutierrez, who representing him during the original murder trial 16 years ago, was disbarred in connection with other cases and her failing health due to the effects of multiple sclerosis. 1.3k shares Brown argued that Gutierrez was ineffective because she didn't contact Chapman, who has vouched for Syed. In Welch's order, he disagreed that Gutierrez erred when she failed to contact Chapman, or that prosecutors breached their duty by withholding exculpatory evidence.

But Welch did agree that Syed's attorney provided ineffective assistance for the failure to cross-examine the state's cell tower expert about the reliability of cell tower location evidence' that placed him near the burial site. During the extensive hearing, defense attorneys and prosecutors called witnesses and vigorously cross-examined others. Chapman spent nearly two days on the stand, testifying she and Syed spent about 15 minutes chatting in the library on Jan. 13, 1999, but that despite repeated efforts to reach Syed's defense team at the time with an offer to be an alibi, she was never contacted.

Hae (top circled) was found strangled to death and buried in a Baltimore park in 1999, with ex-boyfriend Adnan (front circled) charged with her murder Chapman wrote a pair of letters and sent them to Syed in jail days after the man's arrest, detailing their meeting. Syed's current attorneys, Brown and Christopher Nieto, pointed to the letters as proof of her story, which has remained largely consistent for 16 years. Prosecutors used one of the letters to try to impeach Chapman's testimony.