Adnan Syed

It was a picture of, hey, and at some point they said, like, we'll leave you alone with this.

You know, you just look at, hey, you just look at this.

So they're looking at it, you know, but I'm still thinking, like, you know, this is just kind of like, you know, like a scare tactic.

They're trying to scare me to see, well, is there something that I know?

What am I going to say?

But still thinking that, you know, once this is over, I'm going to leave.

And they both came in again.

And that's when they slid the paper to me.

And it slid on top of the Metro Crime Stopper bulletin.

And that's where it said, you know, they had the seal of Baltimore City in the top left-hand corner.

And it said, charge a document or a statement of charges.

And it said, Adnan Saeed did willfully premeditated and with malice or forethought or deliberately murder or kill Hayman Lee on such and such day.

And it said, punishable by

At this point, Adnan asked for a lawyer.

In my mind, I'm thinking like, you know, am I going home?

And I said to him, I said, I don't remember either I thought it or I said it, but man, what's in my mind is like, I still got to finish this report.

You know, I have to get this report off Monday.

The last thing I can remember him saying is, God, you're not going home.

You know, you have to, I mean, it's probably impossible for you or anyone else who has a computer to understand.

To be a 17-year-old kid in this situation, with no experience with the system, no experience with any of this stuff, it's very difficult to believe in the early stages that this is actually what's happening.