Adnan Syed hired by Georgetown University after release from prison
After serving 23 years in prison and being released earlier this year, Adnan Syed has been hired by Georgetown University. Syed began work as a program associate for the school's Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI), which offers educational programs and training for incarcerated individuals.
Syed was convicted of the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, which became a high profile case years later when it was covered on the "Serial" podcast. Syed maintained his innocence and was exonerated this year when Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced all charges brought against him were to be dropped, saying new tests revealed a "DNA mixture of multiple contributors" on Lee's shoes and that Syed's DNA was excluded.
Syed, now 41, began his new role at Georgetown on Dec. 12, the school announced this week. In his role he will support the PJI program, which includes a Making an Exoneree class, that has students reinvestigate wrongful convictions. The students work to bring innocent people home from prison and create short documentaries about cases.
"To go from prison to being a Georgetown student and then to actually be on campus on a pathway to work for Georgetown at the Prisons and Justice Initiative, it's a full circle moment," Syed said in a statement. "PJI changed my life. It changed my family's life. Hopefully I can have the same kind of impact on others."
Syed, now 41, began his new role at Georgetown on Dec. 12, the school announced this week. In his role he will support the PJI program, which includes a Making an Exoneree class, that has students reinvestigate wrongful convictions. The students work to bring innocent people home from prison and create short documentaries about cases.
My man. When your life has been distilled into bullshit, you might find passion, and from passion a cause. I hope these folks manage to right some more wrongs in this world.
I’m feeling like the real story is getting buried here. Our nation has an issue with recidivism. Adnan found a program that is far too difficult to take advantage of in many cases, which is designed to put people in a better place upon their release, reducing recidivism. The program adnan was hired into helps bring to light more cases where wrongful conviction may have occurred, and has actual, soon-to-be lawyers working on them. Whether he was guilty or not, the article is about what comes next;something good can come of this
I love how this must be screwing with the most die-hard guilters - those self-righteous jerks who ran off all of the intellectually curious for years and years. Such a sweet outcome.
I only perused the serial subreddit occasionally, but over time, most people became guilters in the sense that there was no way he wasn’t involved. The state did a lot of shady shit that absolutely should get him off due to technicality, but that doesn’t mean he was involved. Just that the DA decided not to pursue it again because it’s a stain on their establishment, so they want to bury it instead of ending up finding more bad apples in the justice system.
There was no real evidence and the DNA excluded him and pointed to someone else. Who that is, we will probably never know because the DA is done with the case.
On a statistical level of just surface level evidence, sure statistically, he was the most likely person. But the bar of evidence is reasonable doubt. And the was plenty of reasonable doubt. It's not our place to continue to claim he's guilty. According to the state, he's innocent and that should be good enough.
