Serial S01 - Update 3: Day 03, 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	This is Sarah Kaney, please leave a message.
0:07.0	Damn it, Sarah.
0:08.0	You like to email me. Hello? Hello. Hi.
0:24.0	Hi.
0:25.0	So it's Friday night.
0:26.0	You're in Baltimore.
0:27.0	It's Friday night in Baltimore.
0:29.0	So, okay, so you ended the day yesterday, and there's this one big question, which is,
0:35.8	was the phone in Leek and Park?
0:37.7	And I'm very curious to know if you got an answer to that question.
0:45.0	So, to that I don't know.
0:47.0	you texted me at lunchtime and said you had an answer for me.
0:52.0	What I have the answer to is the thing you're dying to know is what does AT&T mean when it says you can't use incoming calls for location.
1:03.8	So here's the answer that the state's expert said today.
1:08.0	What that means is it's referring not to cell towers, but it's referring to the switch, the sort of
1:17.6	like the giant brain of all this of the cell towers in an area.
1:21.6	It's the thing that decides like which tower gets which handles which call?
1:26.4	I believe so.
1:27.4	You probably know that better than I do, but yeah.
1:30.1	Okay.
1:31.1	And so he's saying the best explanation he could, oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you this,
1:37.0	the switch that covers the D.C. Baltimore area, or at least the one that did in 1999, I don't know if it's the same one but it's called
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