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Post Conviction I

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<< The Trials

Friday, February 25, 2000 / Trial 2 / Day 21

  • Page 47: Closing Arguments

  • Verdict Sheet

  • 1:35PM: Jury deliberations begin

  • 4:25PM Verdict Read; Syed convicted of:

  • First Degree Murder (Life)

  • Kidnapping (30 years, consecutive to life)

  • False imprisonment and robbery (10 years, concurrent with kidnapping)

  • Rabia remembers going down to see Adnan that same evening, and says that's when Adnan gave her Asia's letters, (according to Serial podcast.) Adnan remembers calling Rabia on the phone, telling her about the letters, and mailing them to her.

Saturday, February 26, 2000

Monday, February 28, 2000

  • Rabia, Shamim and Tanveer meet with Gutierrez who has reluctantly agreed to meet them.

  • If they discussed Asia, Rabia did not include this information in her memo to the mosque re; new witnesses.

  • Adnan writes a letter to Yusuf

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for one year.

  • Approximate: Rabia mails Adnan sentencing guidelines and information about prosecutorial misconduct.

Tuesday, February 29, 2000

  • NBC's Dateline airs an episode about a wrongfully convicted man.

Wednesday, March 1, 2000

  • Rabia updates the masjid committee re; the meeting with Gutierrez. She suggests reaching out to other witnesses, but doesn't mention Asia. Doesn't seem like anyone knows about Asia, on this date -- except Adnan.

  • Upon conviction, Adnan parents and mosque had paid $95,800 to Gutierrez's firm and there was an outstanding balance of $57,292.

Friday, March 3, 2000

  • Gutierrez visits Adnan re: his appeal. If Adnan did mention Asia at this meeting, and a note was made by Gutierrez, the defense would have used these notes in filings.

Saturday, March 4, 2000

  • According to Adnan (in Rabia's book), this weekend is the first time he told Rabia about Asia's letters (despite Rabia telling Koenig in "The Alibi" that she heard about Asia right after conviction. In Serial, Rabia implies she received Asia's letters from Adnan on Friday, February 27.)

  • Letter from Adnan to Rabia

  • Doesn't mention Asia or her letters.

  • Adnan has received the sentencing guidelines and information about prosecutorial misconduct, that Rabia mailed him.

Monday, March 6, 2000

  • Cristina Gutierrez files Motion for new trial

  • Approximate: Adnan mails copies of Asia's letters to Rabia

Wednesday, March 8, 2000

  • Jay's driver's license is suspended by the DMV for failure to appear on three traffic citations.

Friday, March 17, 2000

  • Approximate: According to Rabia's book, she received Asia's letters -- via the mail from Adnan -- "a couple of weeks" after March 4.

  • Approximate: Rabia's To Do List includes getting Asia to sign an affidavit

Saturday, March 25, 2000

  • Rabia and Saad track down Asia. Rabia and Saad drive Asia to a check cashing place to sign an "affidavit".

  • This document narrowed the alibi to 2:40PM due to Rabia and Saad's misunderstanding of the verdict.

Thursday, March 30, 2000

  • Adnan's parents write letter to Gutierrez, imploring her to use Asia's affidavit.

  • Adnan's letter to Gutierrez asking her to use Asia McClain in a motion for a new trial.

Friday, March 31, 2000

Saturday, April 1, 2000

  • Gutierrez receives Adnan's letter.

Monday, April 3, 2000

  • Adnan's parents write a letter to Judge Heard asking to postpone sentencing (and motion for a new trial) because Gutierrez had just been fired. (Letter received Tuesday, April 4?)

Wednesday, April 5, 2000

  • Sentencing scheduled, but postponed, so public defender Charles Dorsey could prepare. Gutierrez had just been dismissed.

Sunday, May 21, 2000

  • Adnan's 19th Birthday (This is the second time Adnan has celebrated his birthday in prison.)

Monday, May 29, 2000

  • Jet magazine issue with this photo is published and makes its way to the holding area for inmates in the "bullpen."

Tuesday, June 6, 2000

  • Adnan is sitting in the "bullpen," waiting to be sentenced. He writes to Krista:

  • You know what’s really weird? I was looking through this Jet magazine, in case you didn’t know it features African-American issues. -- Adnan tells Krista that Hae had been appearing in his dreams, and that dreams like this have a certain significance in Islam. Adnan writes that he was looking through this Jet magazine and he does a double take because the girl looks so much like Hae. Even her watch looks like Hae’s watch. Adnan writes: Take a look at it and tell me what you think. I hope I’m not going crazy.

  • Sentencing hearing with Judge Heard: Transcripts

  • Adnan represented by Charles Dorsey.

  • Adnan maintains his innocence, despite Dorsey asking for leniency for a "crime of passion."

  • Adnan sentenced to:

  • Life in prison for 1st Degree Murder

  • 30 years for kidnapping (consecutive to murder)

  • 10 years for robbery (concurrent with kidnapping)

  • Motion for new trial denied: This motion was filed March 6 by Gutierrez. Dorsey didn't argue in support of this motion. He may not have been aware of it. Even Heard was surprised by the lack of response from Dorsey as to the motion for new trial.

  • Adnan Syed's Appeal filed in Court of Special Appeals (CoSA) MD. Issues raised:

  • a) Prosecutorial misconduct & Brady rule

  • b) Did court prevent Adnan from presenting evidence

  • c) Hearsay based on prejudicial nature of Hae's letter

  • d) Admission of Hae's diary

  • Maryland law allows only 10 years from the date of sentencing to file the PCR motion.

  • The state has a strong argument against federal habeas corpus on the Asia claim, because Asia's affidavit was obtained in 2000, so there is no justification for waiting another decade to start the PCR action about that issue.

Wednesday, June 7, 2000

Wednesday, June 14, 2000

  • Adnan writes to Rabia with his views/impressions of the sentencing hearing.

  • Adnan refers to his attorney as "This genius, Dorsey..."

  • Adnan writes to Krista, referring to Dorsey as a "jerk."

Thursday, July 6, 2000

  • Jay's Sentencing Hearing. Jay receives a suspended sentence, not the two years prison per the plea agreement.

  • Case Information Sheet

  • Criminal Information Sheet

  • Stephanie and Jay have been broken up for over a year. But she is present in courtroom.

  • Adnan's appeal argues that if the trial jury had known Jay would get probation only, they would have thought this motivated Jay to lie. The defense implies that Jay knew he wasn't going to prison. But Jay didn't know. Jay thought he would get five years -- two, at the very minimum.

Friday, July 28, 2000

  • Public Defender Charles Dorsey files motion for modification of Adnan's sentence.

  • According to Adnan's petition for Post Conviction Relief, this was a blunder on Dorsey's part.

  • You only get to file for sentence modification once, and Dorsey filed immediately, when he should have waited.

  • The 2011 supplement claims that Dorsey wasted Adnan's one and only chance for getting a sentence modification and of course it was denied right away.

Wednesday, August 2, 2000

  • Judge Heard denies motion for sentence modification

August, 2000

  • Jay owns a motorcycle, and the registration expires during this month

September 13, 2000

  • 5PM: Jay is pulled over because the tags on his motorcycle have expired.

Sunday, October 15, 2000

  • Hae Min Lee 20th Birthday

Monday, October 16, 2000

  • Adnan writes to Rabia about Stephanie.

  • Adnan has been thinking a lot about Stephanie and thinks that Stephanie knows something, or could shed a light on things. Adnan isn't comfortable reaching out to Stephanie. So, he has asked Krista to help. But, Krista doesn't really like Stephanie. Adnan doesn't feel comfortable writing questions for Krista to ask Stephanie. So, he's going to have Krista come visit, and tell Krista - in person - what to ask Stephanie. Then Krista will reach out to Stephanie via email, and act as a go-between Stephanie and Adnan. Adnan wants to make sure Rabia knows this is why there is a girl on his visitors list. Apparently, girls have wanted to visit Adnan before, but he didn't want his mother to cross paths with any female visitors.

February 28, 2001

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for two years

Monday, May 21, 2001

  • Adnan's 20th Birthday

  • Approximate: According to Rabia, Adnan begins working hustles like making photocopies, trading, getting medicine, books and other contraband for other inmates. Over eight years, he is able to save up $10,000.00

  • According to Sarah Koenig: at Jessup, Adnan had a good job. He was a clerk in the Chaplain's Office which gave him access to a computer, and to a printer and copier. Being an entrepreneurial sort he ran a couple of side businesses, printing stuff and making copies for people.

Thursday, May 24, 2001

Wednesday, July 18, 2001

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

  • Unrelated: Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. In total 2,996 people are killed.

Wednesday, September 19, 2001

Wednesday, September 25, 2001

Monday, October 15, 2001

  • Hae Min Lee 21st Birthday

January 15, 2002

  • Adnan writes Rabia about prayer, a time before his dad started "losing it," how Saad car stolen with a bunch of TVs inside, and about how he hasn't been molested in prison. Adnan wants to know why Rabia and Saad don't visit him any more.

Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Thursday, February 28, 2002

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for three years.

Tuesday, April 30, 2002

May 6, 2002

  • Adnan write Rabia about the pending appeal decision. He tells Rabia that oral arguments are scheduled for June 3, and even though Adnan's Dad will be there, Adnan asks Rabia if she will please go. Adnan writes that he really needs Rabia and that Warren A. Brown is an asshole. Adnan says that he understands Rabia is studying for the bar, has an ongoing custody dispute, and is job-hunting. It's okay if she's too busy because he knows she would come if she could.

June 3, 2002

  • Oral arguments heard with respects to Adnan's appeal.

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

  • Adnan's 21st Birthday

  • Approximate: According to Rabia, Adnan is still working hustles like making photocopies, trading, getting medicine, books and other contraband for other inmates. Over eight years, he is able to save up $10,000.00

  • According to Sarah Koenig: at Jessup, Adnan had a good job. He was a clerk in the Chaplain's Office which gave him access to a computer, and to a printer and copier. Being an entrepreneurial sort he ran a couple of side businesses, printing stuff and making copies for people.

  • Undated 2002 photo of Adnan visited by Rabia and Saad

Tuesday, October 15, 2002

  • Hae Min Lee 22nd Birthday

February 28, 2003

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for four years.

Monday, Mar 19, 2003

  • Adnan's Appeal Denied by Justice John J. Bishop, Jr..

  • Justice's bio

  • Adnan's petition for post conviction relief should have been filed within one year of this date.

  • Inexplicably, Adnan waited seven years between this date and filing for post conviction relief. Maryland law allows no more than 10 years from sentencing to file for PCR. Asia's affidavit was obtained in 2000, so that can't be the reason for waiting seven years.

  • Update: Rabia wrote in her book that Adnan felt "burned" by the system, exhausted of funds, and didn't want to use up his last available option. He wanted to hold onto hope.

  • Turns out, Rabia lied to the readers of her blog when she wrote that Adnan had to wait 10 years to apply for post conviction relief. She knew Adnan could file right away, if he wanted, and she knew why he waited.

Date Unknown

  • Adnan files a Pro Se petition for Writ of Certiorari. Lack of money or an attorney didn't keep Adnan from filing.

Wednesday, May 21, 2003

  • Adnan's 22nd Birthday

  • Approximate: According to Rabia, Adnan is still working hustles like making photocopies, trading, getting medicine, books and other contraband for other inmates. Over eight years, he is able to save up $10,000.00

  • According to Sarah Koenig: at Jessup, Adnan had a good job. He was a clerk in the Chaplain's Office which gave him access to a computer, and to a printer and copier. Being an entrepreneurial sort he ran a couple of side businesses, printing stuff and making copies for people.

June 20, 2003

  • The Court of Appeals denies Syed's Pro Se petition for Writ of Certiorari.

August/September, 2003

  • Approximate: C. Justin Brown -- who graduated Cornell University in 1992, enrolls in the University of Maryland, School of Law

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

  • Hae Min Lee 23rdBirthday

Thursday, January 29, 2004

February 28, 2004

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for five years.

Friday, May 21, 2004

  • Adnan's 23rd Birthday

  • Approximate: At some point in 2004, Chris Flohr recommends attorney Nathan Biddle to Adnan for his application for post conviction relief.

  • Approximate: In the Spring of 2004, Adnan gets a cell phone. Over the course of five years, Adnan will have several cell phones. At least one of the phones was smuggled in by a guard, in the hollowed out handle of a drill.

  • Approximate: According to Rabia, Adnan is still working hustles like making photocopies, trading, getting medicine, books and other contraband for other inmates. Over eight years, he is able to save up $10,000.00

  • According to Sarah Koenig: at Jessup, Adnan had a good job. He was a clerk in the Chaplain's Office which gave him access to a computer, and to a printer and copier. Being an entrepreneurial sort he ran a couple of side businesses, printing stuff and making copies for people.

July 27, 2004

Friday, September 24, 2004

Friday, October 15, 2004

  • Hae Min Lee 24th birthday

Sunday, November 28, 2004

  • Adnan writes Rabia:

  • He is going to wait as long as possible to file for Post Conviction Relief. He wants to take nine years to research his case, and then hire a post conviction lawyer.

  • [Ten years later, in 2014, Rabia lied to readers of her blog, writing that Adnan had to wait ten years before he could file for PCR.]

  • He is not going to pursue the brain mapping idea presented by Chris Flohr.

  • [Rabia writes in her book that they didn't pursue this brain mapping idea because Justin Brown wouldn't want anything distracting from the PCR. Trouble is, Justin Brown didn't graduate from law school until June of 2005, and wasn't Adnan's attorney until years after the decision was made not to pursue brain mapping.]

Thursday, December 2, 2004

Monday, December 6, 2004

February 28, 2005

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for six years.

April 20, 2005

April 21, 2005

  • Hae's fingernails, hair, and swabs returned to evidence. Not out long enough to test. Taken out by mistake?

Saturday, May 21, 2005

  • Adnan's 24th Birthday

  • Approximate: Adnan has had a cell phone for a year, and gets a new t-mobile cell phone. This is his second cell phone. He uses the first cell phone to call T-mobile customer support when he can't get the t-mobile cell phone to work. At least one of the phones was smuggled in by a guard, in the hollowed out handle of a drill.

  • Approximate: According to Rabia, Adnan is still working hustles like making photocopies, trading, getting medicine, books and other contraband for other inmates. Over eight years, he is able to save up $10,000.00

  • According to Sarah Koenig: At Jessup, Adnan had a good job. He was a clerk in the Chaplain's Office which gave him access to a computer, and to a printer and copier. Being an entrepreneurial sort he ran a couple of side businesses, printing stuff and making copies for people.

June, 2005

  • Approximate: C. Justin Brown graduates from University of Maryland School of Law

  • Approximate: After graduating law school, C. Justin Brown clerks for ANDRE M. DAVIS, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

August/September, 2005

  • Approximate: C. Justin Brown begins working at Nathan & Biddle as an Associate.

Saturday, October 15, 2005

  • Hae Min Lee 25th birthday

Saturday, December 9, 2005

January, 2006

  • Approximate: C. Justin Brown passes the Maryland State Bar Exam in 2006

February 28, 2006

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for seven years.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

  • Adnan's 25th Birthday

  • Approximate: Adnan has had a cell phone for two years. At least one of the phones he has had was smuggled in by a guard, in the hollowed out handle of a drill.

  • Approximate: According to Rabia, Adnan is still working hustles like making photocopies, trading, getting medicine, books and other contraband for other inmates. Over eight years, he is able to save up $10,000.00

  • According to Sarah Koenig: at Jessup, Adnan had a good job. He was a clerk in the Chaplain's Office which gave him access to a computer, and to a printer and copier. Being an entrepreneurial sort he ran a couple of side businesses, printing stuff and making copies for people.

Saturday, September 2, 2006

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Sunday, October 15, 2006

  • Hae Min Lee 26th birthday

February 28, 2007

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for eight years.

Monday, May 21, 2007

  • Adnan's 26th Birthday

  • Approximate: Adnan has had a cell phone for three years. At least one of the phones he has had was smuggled in by a guard, in the hollowed out handle of a drill.

  • Approximate: According to Rabia, Adnan is still working hustles like making photocopies, trading, getting medicine, books and other contraband for other inmates. Over eight years, he is able to save up $10,000.00

  • According to Sarah Koenig: at Jessup, Adnan had a good job. He was a clerk in the Chaplain's Office which gave him access to a computer, and to a printer and copier. Being an entrepreneurial sort he ran a couple of side businesses, printing stuff and making copies for people.

Monday, October 15, 2007

  • Hae Min Lee 27th birthday

December 4, 2007

  • Adnan receives Certificate of Achievement for three years of being "infraction free." [Guess they don't know about the cell phone.]

January 13, 2008

January/February, 2008

  • Approximate: Adnan sends Kandra $10,000.00 - Rabia doesn't hear about this until it has already happened.

  • Approximate: Kandra visits Adnan and they are married by another inmate. Rabia doesn't hear about this until it has already happened.

  • Kandra begins helping Adnan with his case by doing computer searches and making copies.

February 28, 2008

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for nine years.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

  • Adnan's 27th Birthday

  • Approximate: Adnan has had a cell phone for four years. At least one of the phones he has had was smuggled in by a guard, in the hollowed out handle of a drill.

  • Approximate: According to Rabia, Adnan is still working hustles like making photocopies, trading, getting medicine, books and other contraband for other inmates.

  • According to Sarah Koenig: at Jessup, Adnan had a good job. He was a clerk in the Chaplain's Office which gave him access to a computer, and to a printer and copier. Being an entrepreneurial sort he ran a couple of side businesses, printing stuff and making copies for people.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

  • Baltimore Police Officer Lee emails Nathan & Biddle's C. Justin Brown: An item in evidence may have been destroyed. (Is this DNA?)

August, 2008

  • Approximate: C. Justin Brown leaves Nathan & Biddle, LLP, taking Adnan's case with him.

  • Approximate: C. Justin Brown opens his own law firm

Saturday, October 15, 2008

  • Hae Min Lee 28th birthday

Saturday, December 13, 2008

February 28, 2009

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for ten years.

May, 2009

  • Approximate: Justin Brown leaves Nathan & Biddle to start his own firm.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

  • Adnan's 28th Birthday

  • Approximate: Adnan has had a cell phone for five years. At least one of the phones was smuggled in by a guard, in the hollowed out handle of a drill.

  • Approximate: According to Rabia, Adnan is still working hustles like making photocopies, trading, getting medicine, books and other contraband for other inmates.

  • According to Sarah Koenig: At Jessup, Adnan had a good job. He was a clerk in the Chaplain's Office which gave him access to a computer, and to a printer and copier. Being an entrepreneurial sort he ran a couple of side businesses, printing stuff and making copies for people.

June 20, 2009

  • Adnan writes to Rabia that he has been moved to Supermax, in Cumberland, and no longer has the use of a cell phone.

  • Adnan's 10/24/2016 request for bail indicates that in 2009, Adnan was cited for having a cellular phone. In SERIAL, Sarah Koenig said Adnan had a cell phone for five years. Is this why he was moved to Supermax?

  • Kandra has only been able to visit Adnan four times in the year or so that they have been married.

  • Once at Adnan is at Supermax/Cumberland, Kandra never sees Adnan again.

July 14, 2009

  • Adnan writes to Rabia that attorney Larry Nathan will charge $30,000.00 just to look at his transcripts, due to the volume of material. Adnan reminds Rabia that Larry Nathan is someone Chris Flohr recommended in 2004.

  • Adnan writes that C. Justin Brown took the lead, then left Nathan & Biddle and started his own firm, and can charge Adnan less because of overhead.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

  • Hae Min Lee 29th birthday

February 28, 2010

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for eleven years.

Friday, May 21, 2010

  • Adnan's 29th Birthday

  • First birthday at Cumberland / Supermax

End of May, 2010

  • The 10 year deadline to file the PCR approaches

  • Asia: In the late spring of 2010, I learned that the Syed defense team was attempting to contact me. I was initially caught off guard by this and did not talk to them.

  • Serial, Episode 1: Asia's fiancé comes to the door, opens it part way, tells the investigator that she cannot speak to Asia, but that from what he knows of Adnan's case, Adnan is guilty and deserved the punishment he got.

  • Rabia: Adnan’s PI returns with terrible news. Asia won’t testify. The PI never spoke to her, but her fiance made it very clear, in a very nasty way that suggested an anti-Muslim prejudice, that Asia would not be involved and to leave them alone . . . Faced with a tough decision, [Justin Brown] decides to submit [Asia's] letters but not subpeona her for the appeal hearing.

  • According to Rabia, Justin Brown asks Adnan to take a polygraph test to determine the likelihood that he is lying about having asked Gutierrez for a plea deal. According to Rabia, Adnan passes.

Friday, May 28, 2010

  • Seven Years After Appeal Denied. Adnan could have filed for post conviction relief at any time during these past seven years.

  • Asia has already decided not to testify, earlier in May, before speaking to Urick.

  • Attoney Justin Brown files for Post Conviction Relief citing "Ineffective Assistance of Counsel" aka "IAC." Syed asks for new trial, claiming trial counsel (Gutierrez), and appellate counsel (Warren Brown) were ineffective:

    1. Gutierrez failed to establish a timeline disproving State's case
    1. Gutierrez failed to investigate alibi witness (Asia)
    1. Gutierrez failed to move for new trial based on Asia's statements
    1. Gutierrez failed to cross-examine Debbie
    1. Gutierrez failed to approach the state for plea deal
    1. Gutierrez failed to request a change of venue
    1. Gutierrez failed to investigate Jay
    1. In Adnan's appeal brief, Warren Brown failed to include the fact that Waranowitz strayed from his area of expertise, at trial.
    1. Cumulative Ineffective Assistance of counsel.

  • Four years later, on October 18, and November 18, 2014, Rabia would lie to the readers of her blog. Rabia claimed that Adnan had to wait 10 years to file the PCR. Not true. The defendant has ten years to file to file for post conviction relief, but cannot file it AFTER 10 years.

  • In her book, Rabia makes it clear that she and Adnan knew all along that they could file for PCR right after the appeal was denied, and that she lied to the readers of her blog.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

  • Adnan has been at Cumberland / Supermax for one year.

Summer 2010

  • After filing for post conviction relief, Justin Brown attempts to subpoena Asia. (This could be the reason for one of the postponements.)

Friday, October 15, 2010

  • Hae Min Lee 30th birthday

Friday, December 20, 2010

  • PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. First postponement.

February 28, 2011

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for twelve years.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

  • Adnan's 30th Birthday

Thursday, June 9, 2011

June 27, 2011

  • Justin Brown files a Supplement to Adnan's May 28, 2010 Petition for Post Conviction Relief. Cites a 10th point for PCR.

    1. Sentencing counsel, Charles Dorsey, failed to request that the motion for sentence modification be held in abeyance.

  • The supplement also included further points Justin Brown wanted to make about Gutierrez's failure to ask for a pleas deal.

Monday, August 8, 2011

  • PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Second postponement.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

  • Adnan moves to disqualify Kathleen Murphy as counsel for the state.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

  • Hae Min Lee 31st birthday

Thursday, October 20, 2011

  • PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Third postponement.

October, 2011

  • Exact date unknown. About a year before the PCR hearing, Asia telephones Urick. Asia's notes from this call. Urick says before Asia called him, he did not know about the PCR hearing.

  • Asia called Urick months after her fiancé told the defense PI to "go away."

  • Urick: She was concerned if she had to come out here. I explained to her, I was not her attorney. But I told her that she would have to be served. And if she was served, and if they made the proper arrangements, she would have to show up.

January, 2012

  • Rabia founds the "Safe Nation Collaborative." Unfortunately, law enforcement has never heard of it.

Monday, February 6, 2012

  • PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Fourth postponement.

  • Adnan's motion to disqualify Kathleen Murphy is denied.

  • Murphy says she first spoke to Urick about testifying at the PCR in February 2012

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

  • PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Fifth postponement.

February 28, 2012

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for thirteen years.

March 21, 2012

  • Supreme Court Decisions [Lafler & Frye] re; Defense Attorney's obligation to seek plea deal

Monday, May 21, 2012

  • Adnan's 31st Birthday

Friday, June 15, 2012

July 13, 2012

Thursday, July 26, 2012

  • PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Sixth postponement.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

  • PCR Hearing scheduled, but postponed. Seventh postponement.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

  • PCR / Evidentiary Hearing in Post-Conviction Appeal: Transcripts

  • Justin Brown opens by saying he will focus on (3) issues.

  • Gutierrez's failure to investigate Asia

  • Gutierrez's failure to pursue a plea offer

  • Dorsey's failure to request that the motion for sentence modification be held in abeyance.

  • Kevin Urick testifies:

  • Cristina Gutierrez never approached him seeking a plea bargain. He never made an offer, and, if he had been approached, there would have been a possibility of a negotiated disposition.

  • Asia called him because she was afraid of being forced to testify. She had already made up her mind not to testify when she called Urick. And only called him looking for a way to get out of it.

  • Shamim Rahman testifies

  • Rabia Chaudry testifies

  • Asia McClain is a no show. She blames Urick for this, even though she'd decided not to testify, and rebuffed the subpoena, before she called Urick.

Monday, October 15, 2012

  • Hae Min Lee 32nd birthday

Thursday, October 25, 2012

  • PCR / Evidentiary Hearing in Post-Conviction Appeal: Transcripts

  • Adnan Syed testifies

  • Margaret Meady testifies

  • Justin Brown fails to call Andrew Davis, the Private Investigator hired by Flohr and Colbert to investigate the library/track alibi.

  • Years later, Rabia would tell the readers of her blog she she only had Urick's testimony, and didn't have her testimony, Shamim's or Adnan's. In 2015, redditor u/stop_saying_right filed for, paid for, and uploaded the entire PCR for everyone to read.

February 28, 2013

  • Adnan has been in jail/prison for fourteen years.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

  • Adnan's 32nd Birthday

June 11, 2013

August, 2013

  • Rabia says she watched the documentary "West of Memphis," looked up reporters who covered Gutierrez's disbarment, and found Sarah Koenig. Rabia's original intent was that media attention could influence the judge's decision in the PCR.

August 12, 2013

  • Rabia sends a letter to Sarah Koenig, asking her to take a look at the case. Rabia claims the police and prosecutors knew Adnan was innocent, and Gutierrez threw the case for money.

August 29, 2013

  • Rabia hastily sets up an LLC in Maryland, even though she is not licensed to practice law there.

  • In anticipation of meeting with Sarah Koenig, Rabia sets up an office within the travel agency, "Travel Wings," at Security Plaza, across the street from Woodlawn High School.

  • Rabia wants Sarah to think this has always been her office, and that this is where she works.

August 30, 2013

Late September, 2013

  • Adnan receives a letter from Justin Brown saying that a reporter named Sarah Koenig wanted to do an interview. Justin wrote that he didn't think Sarah would waste time on a story if she didn't believe Adnan was innocent. Adnan receives the first letter from Sarah Koenig, a few days later.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

  • By now, Adnan has received an introductory letter from Sarah Koenig. She sent him a pad and pencil and stamps. Adnan writes Sarah Koenig a letter about his story and case.

  • Adnan says he wasn't much bigger than Hae.

  • Adnan says that students weren't allowed to use the top parking lot. (several WHSers and Krista have said that students used the top parking lot.)

  • Adnan describes the route to the Best Buy but neglects to mention the back way.

  • Adnan implies that the October 31 break up was the final break up.

  • Adnan says that he and Hae would joke about two women calling him on his cell phone at the same time. (Only we know that Adnan's first, ever cell phone was activated the evening of January 12, and there are no calls on the call log that support this story.)

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

  • Hae Min Lee 33rd birthday

November, 2013

  • Sarah Koenig meets with Chris Flohr to try to get some sense of Adnan's innocence. She tells Flohr that she won't do the story unless Adnan is innocent.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

  • Adnan receives a reply letter from Sarah Koenig and puts her on his visitor list. Sarah has decided to report on the story.

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