He formerly represented[2] Adnan Syed, who was convicted of murder in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee and was the subject of the first season of the podcast Serial in 2014.

[6] Prior to becoming a lawyer, Brown was a journalist whose work was published in numerous outlets, including The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, Newsweek, the Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, Details, and Maxim.

[9] On June 30, 2016, Judge Martin Welch, of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, granted Syed a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel when trial counsel, Cristina Gutierrez, failed to cross examine a State’s witness with a fax cover sheet pertaining to cell phone records.

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