Brief Analysis Of Serial By Sarah Koenig

In season one of Serial, a podcast narrated by Sarah Koenig, she dissects the flaws in the case of the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, a high school student from Baltimore, Maryland.
During the podcast, Koenig specifically examines the court proceedings, including the prosecution, defense, and the jury. Sarah Koenig was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, in which she wrote articles about defense attorney Cristina Gutierrez. These articles are how Rabia Chaudry found out about Koenig, which prompted her to ask Koenig to review the case. Chaudry knew about this case through her brother Saad, who was good friends with Adnan Syed. She emailed Koenig, asking if she would take a look at the case because she felt like Gutierrez had thrown the case on

Throughout the trial, Gutierrez asked for more than $60,000 to help with her preparation. However, most of this money would ultimately come to nothing, as most expenses she claimed to use the money for never came to fruition. Gutierrez, however, still insisted they owed her more money and if they didn’t pay it, she could take their house. This had an extreme effect on the Syed family, as Adnan’s parents said that “they had paid her for everything, they were so scared they’d transferred their house into their oldest son’s name.” This is ridiculous as Gutierrez’s main focus should be on Syed, not getting money. How is she supposed to properly prepare for the trial and actually care about the case if all she cares about is money. Fundamentally, she shouldn’t have been so worried about the money if she couldn’t back up what she was saying she was going to do. This, sadly, wasn’t the only time this happened, however. Around the time of Syed’s trial there was another trial going on for a boy who was accused of killing his younger brother named Zach Witman. The boys’ parents, Ron and Sue, hired Gutierrez to defend their son. She also got them to pay her a lot of money that she didn’t end up using how she said she was going to use. This money, which in the end totaled more than $90,000, was most likely used to help her health. Over the last few years, Gutierrez had become very sick. But this bodes a question, which is actually asked by Koenig, “If she was too sick, why didn’t she tell them?” This is a very good question. Most likely, she just wanted to get the money and get out. It is easy to see that she was already in bad health as she passed away just a few years later. This shows how Gutierrez was corrupt in not just Syed’s case, but many others as well. Essentially, Gutierrez shouldn’t have been able to conduct these proceedings and get