'The Case Against Adnan Syed' documentary has audience curious the place Don Clinedinst is now, his relationship with Hae Min Lee, and his disability.
Listeners of Serial Season 1 most likely concept they would learned the entirety there used to be to know in regards to the murder of Hae Min Lee, however the brand new HBO documentary, The Case Against Adnan Syed, is exploring numerous floor that wasn't covered by NPR's Sarah Koenig, alongside with what's transpired for the reason that podcast took the nation through storm.
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Lawyer Rabia Chaudry is a family good friend who has been advocating for Syed for 20 years, and approached Koenig with the tale that turned into Serial. She has recognized a large number of tactics she feels the investigation focused too narrowly on building a case in opposition to Hae's ex-boyfriend, Syed, to the exclusion of different imaginable suspects. And one such suspect Chaudry feels was once no longer adequately seemed into was once Hae's new boyfriend at the time of her death: Don Clinedinst.
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Hae's diary printed such a infatuation young youngsters most often have with a new weigh down, the title "Don" is written over and over on a page with a telephone quantity. Only that phone number belonged to Syed's emblem new mobile phone. The call data for that phone would end up instrumental within the state's case towards Syed, who had simply purchased the phone and given the quantity to Hae.
Syed paints the tale of his breakup with Hae as amicable, however the state painted him as a jealous ex who couldn't deal with the fact Hae had moved on. The prosecution's case also targeted a lot on his strict cultural and religious background as a Muslim of Pakistani descent. Chaudry believes racism performed a job in police focusing on Syed over Clinedinst. And whilst police say the latter had an alibi — he was at paintings at LensCrafters at the time of the murder — Chaudry insists that alibi isn't as hermetic as Clinedinst or police would have us consider.
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The explanation why she cites is that Clinedinst's supervisor was his mother, so it might were very easy for her to falsify timesheets on his behalf to provide an alibi. Chaudry also unearths it suspicious that, on the day Hae disappeared, police were unable to reach Clinedinst until 1:30 a.m.
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Where is Don Clinedinst now — and what is his disability?
Clinedinst has stored a low profile since Serial came out and due to Rabia's involvement in the HBO document, he reportedly wasn't considering taking part, regardless that he did permit the workforce to file his voice discussing the case. He recently resides in North Carolina and tells the filmmakers he's been disabled and unable to paintings since he was 23.
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"There's not a day go by that I do not think about her and what happened," he mentioned in an audio-recorded conversation with filmmakers. "I was very much in love with her. But to be honest with you, I've got a lot of other things on my mind."
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When the movie team caught up with Clinedinst, he used to be residing in the the city of Clayton, 30 minutes out of doors of Raleigh, with his circle of relatives. Thought Clinedinst did not expose what form of disability he acquired, he did say he has been in bodily remedy since sustaining an injury a few yr after Hae's death. He doesn't be expecting to are living past 50, so he's far more involved with seeing his circle of relatives it neatly sorted when he's long gone than in whether people imagine a 20-year-old alibi.
To his credit score, Darryl Massey, a detective who work the case, feels confident that Clinedinst was appeared into thoroughly, regardless of the suspect cases on his alibi. Massey additionally stresses that they by no means gained tips about Clinedinst, whereas they did receive a phone name suggesting they have a look at Syed's possible involvement.
On Friday, March 8, Maryland's Court of Appeals reversed a ruling by way of a decrease court docket, which ordered a brand new trial for Syed primarily based on ineffective help of counsel. It's a huge blow to Syed's felony workforce, who has been fighting to overturn his conviction, which his lawyer, Justin Brown, says was once affected by knowledgeable testimony that was once primarily based on wrong information in addition to Syed's former legal professional's failure to call a possible alibi witness, Asia McClain.
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