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Gillian Pensavalle @GillianWithaG

Rise and shine, everyone! The hearing is at 2pm EST and there won’t be any cameras in the courtroom, so find a news outlet streaming from outside or turn on notifications or refresh like crazy or ALL OF THE ABOVE. Time to #FreeAdnan https://t.co/zt8sc4voCH

Colin Miller @EvidenceProf

Today is the day. Please have Adnan Syed and his family in your thoughts today. After 23+ years of wrongful imprisonment, today might by the day he finally gets to see them as a free man🤞 #FreeAdnan https://t.co/G30LdXTMzM

Pretty big day in the true-crime-verse. If you’ve lost track of the case’s timeline somewhat in the last few years — couple other things going on! — NYT’s Daniel Victor dropped one early this morning.

And if you’ve never read it, here’s my review of Serial from December of 2014 (…!!), plus Eve and I talked about The Case Against Adnan Syed on The Blotter Presents back in 2019. And you can

if you need a place to freak out that isn’t your public-facing Twitter that your boss reads. — SDB