A court is reviewing some of the new evidence that came up as part of the podcast. Based on that evidence, the court could then order a new trial. If there's a new trial, I'm willing to bet the DA will probably drop the whole case or come to some sort of agreement with Adnan. The podcast raised so much doubt and publicity that I can't imagine the DA actually wanting to re-try this case. The evidence was shaky back then and the evidence will look much worse years later.
anybody still listening? Sorry to say I just unsubscribed. Love the storytelling and hosts but I'm just not into the material. Miss the characters and 'who done it' theme of Season 1 and the focus on a single case that could represent thousands of similar cases. Oh well. I'll give Season 3 a go if there is one.
I'm not invested at all, but it's roughly 45 minutes every 2 weeks so I'll probably listen while I'm doing errands or garage stuff. If this were season 1 and they decide to slow down their output like so, I would've been real annoyed. I don't really know what's up with this or why she chose this case. She's supposedly not gonna use Bergdahl or his interviewer as a source of new material, only their taped conversations.
This season is interesting at times but the last episode was pretty boring and seems like it was released so long ago. I def miss the murder mystery approach but will finish this season still.
BTW.....if you need a good podcast about murder mysteries and stuff, listen to Sword and Scale. Each week is a different topic. Some of the episodes are pretty disturbing but it is pretty solid. They are up to like 50 episodes now.
My wife unsubscribed. I find this season OK, but no where on par with season 1. I read she has been working on season 3 as well, so lets hope the next season is like the first.
I'm still listening, but I totally agree. The magic of the last season was you literally had no idea where it was going...you were on a journey to find out did he really do it or not, regardless of what a court said about it. I don't see that sort of thing here at all....I don't think we're going to be left with big unanswered interesting questions that her great storytelling is so good at playing to. I think it hurts this seasons that: 1. This isn't a new story...we were all at least vaguely aware of the circumstances before the season started; and 2. The story is still playing itself out on the news...in front of our faces.
I've been following the Adnan Syed case pretty closely and am currently listening to Undisclosed, which is the follow-up podcast to Serial hosted by Rabia Chaudry (Adnan's best friend's sister), a law professor, and a criminal defense attorney. Undisclosed is admittedly biased in Adnan's favor, but it delves into a wealth of evidentiary issues that Serial barely touched on, if at all. A lot of this evidence has been the basis for the new hearing for Adnan that started yesterday. Here is one of the better articles summarizing yesterday's proceedings that I have read. http://www.thefrisky.com/2016-02-03...g-day-1-asia-mcclain-finally-takes-the-stand/ What the article doesn't get into, and what will be presented by the defense team today or tomorrow, is evidence that the subpoena'ed call records sent from AT&T to the detectives and prosecution included a cover sheet that states that incoming call records are not reliable to determine the location at which the call was received. In my opinion, this is an even bigger revelation than Asia McClain's testimony. The cover sheet was never turned over to the defense. The detectives had requested call records for Adnan's cell phone from AT&T, but the records they received included call detail for only Adnan's outgoing cell phone calls, not incoming calls. The only information they received about incoming calls were that calls were made to Adnan's phone at certain times, but the records had no detail on who actually called. At trial, the prosecution relied heavily on the record of two incoming calls made to Adnan's phone around 7 PM that supposedly triggered a cell tower near Leakin Park. The prosecution surmised these calls were made from Jenn at the time Adnan and Jay were burying Hae's body in Leakin Park. But all they have to go by is Jenn's story, and the corroborating evidence they once thought they had (call records) is now being proved as unreliable. The defense team even got the prosecution's cell phone tower expert witness from the original trial to write an affidavit saying that he wouldn't have testified as he did in the original trial, if he had seen the disclaimer on the cover sheet.
http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/04/serial-adds-new-episodes-as-the-season-1-case-continues/ New episodes for Season 1 to air with updates to the case. https://serialpodcast.org/season-one
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-adnan-syed-new-trial-20160630-story.html Conviction vacated, new trial granted...
Out of sheer curiosity, what makes you say this beyond a reasonable doubt? I'm interested to see what modern forensics and a competent defense can achieve now. If he's guilty, I hope the state is able to prove it beyond doubt in what is now going to be a very high profile trial.
I never did finish this podcast. Probably listened to 75% of it. I remember some specifics, but I would probably have to start over at the beginning.
