Rabia Chaudry

thumb|311x311px|Chaudry, in 2016 Rabia Chaudry is a Pakistani-American legal attorney, author & podcast host, who is known for being a family friend of Adnan Syed, a convicted murderer who was featured in the podcast Serial in 2014. Furthermore, she is also known for co-hosting several podcasts (namely Undisclosed), and being the author of a book titled Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial, which was published in 2016 and became a New York Times best seller. Quotes When I decided it was time to get a journalist to look at what I have always held as a wrongful conviction, I did it thinking that reporters can go places most of us can’t. They have ways of tracking down information, getting people to talk, and resources the average person doesn’t. For any and every wrongfully convicted person, you can assume almost everything went wrong. What she did do successfully was blow wide open the idea of a fair criminal justice process. She brought to light questions of religious and ethnic bias, prosecutorial misconduct, police manipulation of witnesses, reasonable doubt, evidential reliability, ineffective assistance of counsel, maximum sentences, juvenile detention, and appellate logjams. taken from an article by Time Magazine, 18 December 2014 You know, anybody can write a memoir of their life in so many different ways, right? It can be about my career. It can be about advocacy work. It can be about so many things. And when you've been carrying that around, like, your entire adult life, it feels quite amazing to be able to finally put it down and check it off your list. taken from an interview with NPR, 6 November 2022 External links Category:Women from Pakistan Category:Women in law Category:Lawyers from the United States Category:Lawyers from Pakistan Category:American Book Award winners Category:Women authors from the United States