The anguish of Lee’s family and Baltimore’s Korean community over the teenager’s death is prominently and sensitively explored. “I went to my laptop and started looking for a reporter who had covered the case in 1999 for the Baltimore Sun,” she says.
We should go to journalists, because they can do things we can’t do,’” Chaudry says, as the first distinctive notes of the “Serial” podcast soundtrack are sounded. “For years, I had been saying to Adnan, ‘We should go to media.
#INNOCENT BUT NOT GUILTY CROSSWORD PLUS#
It’s headlined: “INNOCENT 17-year-old Pakistani Muslim boy wrongfully convicted and sentenced to LIFE PLUS 35 YEARS.”Īfter losing an appeal in 2013, “Rabia pursued a new strategy for Adnan’s case,” viewers are told in a caption on the screen. She holds up an amateurish-looking flyer she says she created at home to try and raise money for Syed’s second appeal. The attorney is shown going through boxes of documents for Syed’s case, some of which she still carries in the trunk of her car. She is the person who brought Syed’s case to the attention of Sarah Koenig, an executive producer, reporter and narrator of the “Serial” podcast, which went viral and was downloaded a reported 340 million times.īerg’s direction takes viewers from the Woodlawn home of Syed’s family to Chaudry’s home where she is preparing a nursery for her third child.
#INNOCENT BUT NOT GUILTY CROSSWORD TRIAL#
Separately in the northern German town of Itzehoe, a 96-year-old former secretary in a Nazi death camp is on trial for complicity in murder.Rabia Chaudry, a Maryland attorney who is identified in the series as an “advocate” for Syed, is an executive producer and prominently featured talking head, so how could the film not favor her point of view?įollowers of the case from its earliest days will remember Chaudry as a driving force on social media and behind the scenes fighting for Syed’s innocence. Most recently, former SS guard Bruno Dey was found guilty at the age of 93 last year and was given a two-year suspended sentence. Since then, courts have handed down several guilty verdicts on those grounds rather than for murders or atrocities directly linked to the individual accused.Īmong those brought to late justice were Oskar Groening, an accountant at Auschwitz, and Reinhold Hanning, a former SS guard at Auschwitz.īoth were convicted at the age of 94 of complicity in mass murder, but died before they could be imprisoned. The 2011 conviction of former guard John Demjanjuk, on the basis that he served as part of Hitler's killing machine, set a legal precedent and paved the way to several of these twilight justice cases. More than seven decades after World War II, German prosecutors are racing to bring the last surviving Nazi perpetrators to justice. Even if convicted, he is highly unlikely to be put behind bars given his age.
"My wife always said that 'there's no other man in the world like you'," said the widower since 1986. Speaking with a clear voice, he spoke about his past birthdays with his daughters and grandchildren, or about his late wife. Schuetz's defence had said at the opening of the case on Thursday that he would not speak about his time at the camp, but would only provide details about his personal life.Īrriving alone at the hearing with his walking aid, Schuetz recounted in detail his past, including his work at his family's farm in Lithuania with his seven siblings before his enrolment in the army in 1938.Īfter the war, he was transferred to a detainees camp in Russia before he was sent to Brandenburg state in Germany where he worked as a farmer and later as a locksmith. Tens of thousands of inmates died from forced labour, murder, medical experiments, hunger or disease before the camp was liberated by Soviet troops, according to the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. The Sachsenhausen camp detained more than 200,000 people between 19, including Jews, Roma, regime opponents and gay people.
"Everything is torn" from his head, he said, complaining that he was the only one in the dock.Īllegations against Schuetz include aiding and abetting the "execution by firing squad of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942" and the murder of prisoners "using the poisonous gas Zyklon B".
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