Opinion: Hae Min Lee’s family deserves justice, not a distraction from Marilyn Mosby’s legal woes

As throngs of podcast fans cheered the release of Adnan Syed, the family of 17-year-old murder victim Hae Min Lee cried. A judge agreed to the prosecution and defense’s joint motion to overturn Syed’s guilty conviction after his 23 years in prison. Given only a weekend’s notice of the latest hearing, the Lee family is appealing the outcome, asserting that the judge denied them a meaningful opportunity to participate as mandated by the state’s victim’s rights law. The rationale Baltimore’s chief prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, gave for her decision in her news release, court filings and news conference was flimsy at best. What Mosby did offer the media and the public was a grand distraction from her own legal woes.