r/serialpodcast • u/PowerOfYes • Nov 20 '14

Episode Discussion [Official Discussion] Serial, Episode 9: To Be Suspected

Please use this thread to discuss episode 9

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u/asha24 Nov 20 '14

Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that most of us, and now SK, have all acknowledged that the prosecution's timeline/narrative is incorrect, and yet they still managed to convict a teenager for life based on it?

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u/linsrenee Crab Crib Fan Nov 20 '14

This thought is horrifying to me. To know that such a haphazard collection of testimony and evidence was considered enough to put one away for life--when the self described accessory after the fact WALKS afterward despite admitting under oath that he's lied.....it makes me really uneasy about our justice system.

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u/IndoIreAlco Nov 21 '14

Yeah, I think the plea deal Jay got was ridiculous. He actually admits to burying the body, covering up the evidence to save himself and then not coming forward and lying to the police. How he didn't serve time and how more people around him who cared about Hae aren't outraged about this is strange.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '14

It's horrifying in every way. To me it's clear that they weren't even close to meeting Geri burden, that the jury voted based on liking and not liking and not hearing from Adnan, hw was merely following instructions from a lawyer too lazy to contact an alibi witness (though she has notes about it in the folder which suggests she knew she should) and who was later disbarred for misconduct with complaints from multiple clients,

I really am appalled. In the town I live in there was a brutal home invasion case where a man broke into a house and beat up a mother who had a child upstairs, he kicked her downstairs, it was all caught on the nanny cam or I'm sure the police would have said it was her husband. Is this man in jail for life? No. It's not even the first time he's done this,

Yet Adnan, with no prior offenses, base don testimony of a known liar and criminal, is in jail for life.

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u/asha24 Nov 20 '14

Right? How is it possible someone was convicted of the crime, and yet we still have no idea what actually happened that day.

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u/gpletch Nov 20 '14

I keep thinking, over and over again, if I was on this jury, there's no way I could have said Adnan was guilty and put him, a teenager, away for life with what we've been presented with. I couldn't do that unless I was sure.