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 boudoir? Yeah, I am. I am. I really like it in here now. I might just stay in here all night.
0:15.0	All right, so today was the second day of the hearing.
0:20.0	Yes. How so how did it go for Asia today? They really went after her, you know,
0:28.0	today was mostly the state cross-examining her and they really attacked her testimony in a bunch of ways.
0:35.0	One of the things they brought up was this whole snow issue
0:40.0	because you remember when I talked to her on the phone that time, you know, when I was
0:45.4	reporting the story and she called me. She said she remembered that day
0:49.5	specifically January 13th 1999. The day he goes missing. The day Hagel is missing. She remembered seeing a
0:55.6	none in the library and she said to me because of the snow, do you remember that?
0:59.3	Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, she was like I remember it because it was this the first snow of the year and there was all the snow.
1:06.0	And the state today, the prosecutor, he was like, are you sure you have the right day because there wasn't snow that day, was there?
1:17.6	Like he sort of referenced what she had said to me.
1:20.6	I mean, that was something we kind of had a question about too because she was very clear with you
1:25.1	She got snowed in at her boyfriend's house and then the next two days were snow days so she's very clear that she ties this memory to the snow, right?
1:35.0	Yeah, yeah. And so we kind of wondered about that.
1:38.0	Yeah, because we looked up the weather, right, and it hadn't snowed. It hadn't snowed. There was a horrible ice storm that had started like in the
1:45.7	wee hours of the next morning but there wasn't snow. It was it was terrible
1:49.6	weather and it was like a big emergency in Baltimore but it was an ice storm and so she kind of I mean
1:59.4	she she did a fairly good job with it I mean she just said like yeah I don't know I know it was bad weather I'm not sure if it was snow or ice or whatever I just remember it was like hazardous bad weather
2:10.2	school was canceled after that and she she was like, and I remember I was happy about it
2:16.1	because I had used the excuse of bad weather as a reason to stay later at my boyfriend
2:21.3	Derek's house, and my mom bought it and then she was like and I
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