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Adnan's story the search for truth and justice after Serial

"In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost al...

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Main Author: Chaudry, Rabia (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Serial (Podcast)
Murderers > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies.
Murder > Investigation > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies.
Judicial error > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies.
Biographies.
Summary: "In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes of finding a journalist who could shed light on Adnan's story. In 2014, Koenig's investigation turned into Serial, a Peabody Award-winning podcast with more than 500 million international listeners. But Serial did not tell the whole story. In this compelling narrative, Rabia Chaudry presents new key evidence that she maintains dismantles the State's case: a potential new suspect, forensics indicating that after Hae was killed her body was kept somewhere for almost half a day, and documentation withheld by the State that refutes the cell phone evidence--among many other points. And she shows how fans of Serial joined an amazing crowd-sourced investigation into a case riddled with errors and strange twists. Adnan's Story also gives a sense of Adnan's life in prison and weaves in his personal reflections, including never-before-seen letters. Chaudry, who is committed to exonerating Adnan, makes it clear that justice has yet to be achieved in this much-examined case."--Dust jacket.
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: 410 pages : facsimiles ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9781250087102
1250087104
Author Notes: Rabia Chaudry is an attorney, public speaker, a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a national security fellow at the New America Foundation. She is the Founder of the Safe Nation Collaborative, a CVE training firm. She received her Juris Doctorate from the George Mason School of Law and practiced immigration and civil rights law for over a decade her work on CVE projects. She is the public advocate of Adnan Syed, the wrongfully convicted man at the center of the most popular podcast in history, "Serial", and is the co-producer and co-host of the podcast "Undisclosed." She is the author of Adnan's Story, which was published in August 2016 and has become a New York Times bestseller.

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