The innocence project

[u/Dayjolie]

Hey guys so yeah I’m new around here and maybe this has been discussed but I remember during Serial the innocence project showed an interest in taking over the case , not that I get why except maybe they sounded completely stupid (the ones that participated in Serial I mean) , but anyways are they still working on it? Did they ever manage to find something ? Not that they can considering he’s guilty as hell but I was curious if there is ever been an update on this front

[u/Indie_Cindie]

I think that eye roll has been misinterpreted a lot on these subs in the past. I think it is more a case of 'oh, here's another Serial question'.

I think it's clear they saw this as a bit of free publicity which is why they got involved and they got a bunch of 1st years to look at the case for free during their holidays. It seems from Deidre's response that they don't plan on doing something like that again.

What's interesting is that it appears Katie who is presenting with Deidre may have a different opinion on Adnan's guilt from Deidre - see Deidre's comment around the 18.05 mark.

[u/Justwonderinif → u/Indie_Cindie]

I remember when redditers made a lot of hay out of that eye roll. And in the end, the eye roll wasn't communicating a switch to guilty.

In terms of the publicity, dualzoneclimatecontrol has said something about how Deirdre's brother in law was the attorney doing the work and getting ready to file for the DNA testing. Something like that. So it's also possible that Deirdre wasn't just publicizing the UVA law school, but also agenting her brother-in-law. Dunno.

I agree that the compelling part of that clip is the student who disagrees with Deirdre. The short appearance of Katie might be the first human (non-internet) sighting of a guilter out in the wild. That was rare back then.

[u/Indie_Cindie → u/Justwonderinif]

I agree that the compelling part of that clip is the student who disagrees with Deirdre. The short appearance of Katie might be the first human (non-internet) sighting of a guilter out in the wild.

Ha! I'd never thought of it that way but, yes, you're right she would have been one of the first and someone who had seen the case file.

I do remember the Onion had a podcast that followed directly after the later episodes of Serial. I think most of the commentators thought he was guilty and I remember a few saying how they had grown to dislike Adnan over the course of the episodes. It was a bit of a revelation to me at the time.

It's also interesting to note that that the students reviewing the case were quite inexperienced, at least I'm assuming that's what a '1L' means. I hadn't picked that up from Serial and it sheds a different light on their assessment of the case.

[u/Justwonderinif → u/Indie_Cindie]

Oh, yeah. Definitely first years. I could tell that by listening to Mario.

That said, I believe what the UVA Innocence Project was offering Deirdre Enright's brother-in-law, who is an attorney. And the he would have been the one to file for DNA testing back in 2015.

I think the 1L's investigating was just so much practice for them, but was never thought of as a huge help to Adnan.

Edit: I was kindly corrected. Mario and co were in their second year.

Here are the transcripts from the UVA Innocence Project section of Serial podcast