In a circuit court filing Sunday, Baltimore prosecutors agreed with Adnan Syed that his life sentence should be reduced to time served in the 1999 killing of his high school sweetheart, Hae Min Lee, which drew national attention in 2014 as the focus of the podcast “Serial.”
If approved by a judge, the development means Syed — who was released in 2022 amid legal challenges to his convictions on murder, robbery and kidnapping charges — will likely never return to prison, even if Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates refuses to overturn Syed’s judgment of guilt as the previous state’s attorney recommended…