THE BALTIMORE SUN — Clothing, shoes and other pieces of evidence collected in the infamous Baltimore murder case against Adnan Syed will be sent off to a California lab for new DNA analysis, a city judge has ordered. Together, Syed’s attorney and Baltimore prosecutors asked the court last week to consider new post-conviction DNA testing, arguing that the results could help settle Syed’s long-standing claims of innocence in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee. Lee was strangled to death and her body discovered in a clandestine grave in Leakin Park. Police and prosecutors maintained Syed, her ex-boyfriend, was culpable for her killing. He stood trial twice for her murder and was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years. Syed is incarcerated at the state’s Patuxent Institution in Jessup. He has appealed multiple times and has always maintained he is innocent. Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn’s order Monday requires Baltimore police to send a handful of items recovered in the investigation to the Forensic Analytical Crime Lab in Hayward, California, within 15 days.