Defense lawyers follow popular Serial podcast's lead, are publishing sequel to client's online story
Defense lawyers representing Adnan Syed in the appeal of his murder conviction are following the lead of a journalist who produced the wildly popular Serial podcast about his case.
Their new podcast, Undisclosed: The State v. Adnan Syed, will debut Monday. “The remarkable success of the podcast Serial, which brought to light the many questions that remained unresolved in this case, also left many questions unanswered,” the program’s website explains. “In the wake of Serial, much new evidence and information has been discovered and uncovered.”
The Baltimore Sun (sub. req.), the BBC News, Entertainment Weekly, Mediaite and Rolling Stone have stories.
“If I haven’t expressed enough how grateful I am to her and the entire Serial team, even given the times when we didn’t see eye to eye, for literally bringing this case back from the dead, let me do so emphatically now,” writes one of Syed’s lawyers, Rabia Chaudry, in a Split the Moon blog post. “We would be nowhere, and would have had no glimmer of hope for Adnan, without them. Without their masterful storytelling, without the hundreds of hours they put in, without them giving Adnan a chance.”
Related coverage:
ABAJournal.com: “‘Serial’ podcasts downplayed info supporting murder conviction, prosecutor says; DNA testing sought”
ABAJournal.com: “‘Serial’ subject Syed appeals, says lawyer never interviewed alibi and didn’t seek plea deal”
