She elbowed her way to the top of the congressional boys’ club, then distinguished herself as the most effective House leader since the middle of the last century.
Mr. Syed, whose case was featured in the hit podcast “Serial,” had been convicted in the death of a high school classmate and spent 23 years in prison before being released last month.
The decision could soon free Mr. Syed, 41, who had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his high school classmate Hae Min Lee, but he could face a second trial.