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If you listen to podcasts, chances are you’ve been hooked on Serial, the latest podcast created by This American Life’s Sarah Koenig. And if you’ve been listening to Serial, you’ve no doubt had many Serious Discussions about if Adnan Syed—the Maryland inmate sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend when he was a teen—really did it.

While we may not get a definitive answer to that question this season, Syed will get another chance in court to prove his innocence. The Associated Press reports that Syed’s case is “now in its final stages of appeal,” with a hearing scheduled for January. Syed’s Lawyer, C. Justin Brown, says that it’s his “last best chance” to prove his innocence.

The podcast tells the story of how Syed—a popular, humble, all-around “good” kid, according to friends and family at a high school in the Baltimore suburbs—was charged and sentenced to life in prison when he was 17 for strangling his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee in 2000.

Throughout each episode, Koenig pours over the mountains of evidence the state used against him and analyzes—almost obsessively—all of the inconsistencies that lead many to believe Syed is innocent.

There’s a lot of evidence to consider in Syed’s case—which Koenig skillfully discusses each week—but his upcoming appeal, which is five years in the works, will depend on a key witness that may be able to prove where he was during the time of Lee’s murder. From the AP:

“The entire trial depended on whether Syed could prove where he was at the time of the murder,” Brown wrote. “Meanwhile, a credible witness — an honors student who had no obvious bias in favor of Syed — had come forward unsolicited with a recollection that she had been with Syed around the time of the murder … Yet the lawyer did absolutely nothing.”

Meanwhile, a second season of Serial will indeed happen, the show confirms, but it will be an entirely different story unrelated to Syed’s case.