"We are elected to pursue justice in every case by looking closely at the facts and faithfully applying the law, without passion or prejudice, and regardless of one side's public-relations campaign or the publicity swirling around a case on the internet, on television, or in the papers," they wrote. "Which is why it is rightly the Court of Special Appeals, not the court of public opinion, that must correct the lower court's error in granting Mr. Syed's petition for a new trial."