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HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Baltimore Sun / Getty Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast Serial, is now a free man after a judge vacated his conviction for murder. Syed, 41, was in a Baltimore courtroom on Monday (Sept. 19) after prosecutors were granted approval of their motion to vacate his 2000 conviction for the murder of Hae Min Lee. Lee, who was killed in 1999, was Syed’s former high school girlfriend. Baltimore City Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn vacated Syed’s conviction and explained that there was material in the state’s investigation that wasn’t turned over properly to defense lawyers and the existence of two suspects that possibly were cleared improperly. “In the interest of judgment and fairness, the state’s motion to vacate judgment … is hereby granted. The defend...