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Serial: The Maryland Court of Special Appeal’s Unpublished Decision Denying...
One of the legal aspects of Adnan’s case that Serial gave little attention to (no attention to?) was the outcome of Adnan’s initial appeal, which was rejected by an unpublished opinion in 2003. The...
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Serial: How to Commit Effective Perjury in Eleven Easy Steps
The rumors of Serial’s end have been greatly exaggerated — and between Jay’s recent interview with the Intercept, the release of the trial transcripts from the first trial, the upcoming appeal hearing...
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Serial: How Prosecutor Kevin Urick Failed to Understand the Cellphone Records...
This week, the Intercept released Part 1 of its interview with Kevin Urick, the prosecutor at Adnan’s 1999 and 2000 trials. Part 2 of that interview had been scheduled to be released on Thursday, but...
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Serial: The Failure of the Prosecution’s Cellphone Theory, In One Simple Chart
The prosecution’s case against Adnan can be summed up in three words: Leakin Park Pings. Again and again, the prosecution argued (and is still arguing) that Adnan’s guilt can be shown simply from the...
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Serial: Evidence that Jay’s Story was Coached to Fit the Cellphone Records
There is one part of Jay’s story that has been bugging me for a while now. Jay claimed in his first police interview that, after dropping Adnan off at track, he went home to wait for Adnan to call to...
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Serial: The Prosecution’s Use of Cellphone Location Data was Inaccurate,...
Note: In order to provide context for this post on the prosecution’s use of cellphone evidence, Rabia has given me permission to post transcripts from the testimony of Abraham Waranowitz, the...
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Serial: The Prosecution’s Bad Faith Withholding of Crucial Evidence Before...
Adnan was deprived of a fair trial by two failures of the criminal justice system: (1) a prosecutor who failed to disclose exculpatory evidence in time for meaningful use by the defense, and (2) a...
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Serial: The Burial in Leakin Park Did Not Take Place at 7:00 p.m.
The Docket – February 13, at 1:00 p.m. est, : Just a quick note — Rabia Chaudry and I will be appearing on MSNBC Shift’s the Docket tomorrow, for a one-hour Serial special. You can watch online, it...
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Cellphone Maps for the Docket’s Serial Special – February 13, 1 p.m. EST
For those watching the Docket’s one-hour Serial special today — available to watch online on Shift by MSNBC (part 1) (part 2) — here is a complete set of the maps that we discuss during the show, to...
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Serial: Adnan Was the Prime (and Possibly Only) Suspect in Hae’s Murder Even...
Trial Transcripts: Since Rabia is out of the country at the moment, and since there are transcripts that are overdue for release, Rabia asked if I could post the next batch of transcripts: February 4,...
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Serial: Phone Records, Bank Records, and Alibi Witnesses
The following post is a collection of a few points of interest that I’ve mentioned elsewhere, in other forums, but have not yet addressed on my blog. In order to make everything available in a central...
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Serial: Unless Hae Was Lying to Don, the Note Found in Her Car Was Not...
As a manager for the Woodlawn wrestling team, Hae handled the scoring for their matches, and she traveled with the team when they had matches at other high schools. At Adnan’s trials, as well as in the...
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Serial: The Question of Don’s Alibi
As a preface, I want to be very clear: this post is not about Don. Rather, it is about the the State’s investigation of Don, and the failure thereof. Nothing herein is evidence that Don was involved in...
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Serial: The Above Average Investigations of Detectives Ritz and MacGillivary
Two big updates before today’s post: First, Rabia Chaudry, Colin Miller, and I will be launching a new podcast to cover all the new developments in Adnan’s case. The first episode of Undisclosed will...
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Serial: Lies, Damned Lies, and Closing Arguments
Note: Rabia Chaudry (Split the Moon), Colin Miller (Evidence Prof Blog), and I started a podcast. It’s called Undisclosed, and it follows Adnan Syed’s case and current appeal. New episodes will be...
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What the Crime Scene Photographs Show
Previously, on both Undisclosed and our blogs, Colin, Rabia, and I have discussed the significance of the medical examiner’s findings concerning livor mortis. To recap, Dr. Korell’s autopsy report...
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A Follow-Up Post On Cellphone Borrowing, Track Practices, and Wednesdays
In yesterday’s bonus episode of Undisclosed, I mentioned that I agreed with Colin about how Jay’s borrowing of Adnan’s car and phone appeared to be directly tied to their involvement in weed dealing,...
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The Absurdity of the State’s Self-Professed “Best Evidence”
As I assume anyone bothering to read this blog would already know, Adnan’s PCR hearing concluded last week after five days, eight witnesses, and approximately 3,000 donuts consumed by various members...
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Exhibit 31 Was Not a Certified Business Record
In today’s episode of Undisclosed, Postconviction Relief Part 5: Closing Thoughts, we discussed in greater detail how the cellphone records at Adnan’s trial were not the authenticated copy of records...
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Thoughts on the Coming Resistance
Most of my free time these days goes to the podcast — or, at least, that’s my excuse for why I haven’t blogged regularly in over a year now, and I doubt I’ll be resuming regular blog posts again any...
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