Serial S01 Update 2: Day 02, Adnan Syed’s Hearing

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🗓️ 18 December 2014

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February 2016: Sarah Koenig ducks back into the Adnan Syed case for a few days. There’s a hearing in Baltimore—a court proceeding that’s been nearly sixteen years in the making. Syed’s attorney will introduce new evidence, and present a case for why his conviction should be overturned. Sarah and producer Dana Chivvis will discuss what happens, day by day.

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0:00.0	Hello. Are you back in your boot war?
0:07.8	Yeah, I am. I really like it in here now. I might just stay in here all night.
0:15.4	Alright, so today was the second day of the hearing.
0:20.8	Yes.
0:21.8	So how did it go for Asia today?
0:25.4	They really went after her. Today was mostly the state cross-examining her. They really attacked
0:32.7	her testimony in a bunch of ways. One of the things they brought up was this whole snow issue.
0:41.2	Because you remember when I talked to her on the phone that time, when I was reporting
0:45.7	this story, and she called me, she said she remembered that day specifically January 13,
0:51.7	1999.
0:52.7	So today, he goes missing? The day he goes missing. She remembered seeing a nun in the
0:56.0	library, and she said to me, because of the snow. Do you remember that?
0:59.5	Yeah, yeah, right.
1:00.5	Yeah, she was like, I remember because it was the first snow of the year, and there was
1:04.2	all the snow. And the state today, the prosecutor, he was like, are you sure you have the right
1:14.3	day? Because there wasn't snow that day, was there? Like he sort of referenced what
1:18.8	she had said to me. I mean, that was something we kind of had a question about too, because
1:23.8	she was very clear with you. She got snowed in at her boyfriend's house, and then the
1:29.2	next two days were snow days. So she's very clear that she ties this memory to the snow,
1:34.7	right?
1:35.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:36.7	So we kind of wondered about that.
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