A Baltimore judge is expected to rule on whether Adnan Syed’s life sentence should be reduced Wednesday afternoon after a long-winded hearing.

David Sanford, an attorney for Hae Min Lee’s family, asked the judge to deny Syed’s motion to reduce his sentence, reminding the court that he remains a convicted murderer and hasn’t expressed remorse or accepted responsibility for the crime.

Adnan Syed remains a convicted murderer and out of prison with his future in limbo after a judge heard testimony Wednesday without a ruling from the bench on his request to reduce his sentence to time served.

Adnan Syed, whose murder case was chronicled in the "Serial" podcast in 2014, returned to a Baltimore courtroom as a judge considered whether to reduce his sentence under the Juvenile Restoration Act.

Syed, whose case garnered international attention after the “Serial” podcast, has a hearing Wednesday seeking to reduce his sentence and allow him to remain free.

Syed has maintained his innocence in the 1999 killing of his high school ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, but her family opposed any reduction in sentence. The case became famous when it was featured on the first season of the “Serial” podcast,

No decision reached in Adnan Syed's sentence reduction hearing