It's back today with Bowe Bergdahl telling his story.

I'll be interested to see how this is received.

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Serial Season One killer Adnan Syed wins some sort of victory. Judge says he should get a new trial.

Wasn't on the issue his lawyers wanted most, the alibi witness Asia chick. rather, the judge thought Adnan's lawyer didn't do her job examining the state's cell phone expert.

Guessing both the state and the defense will file appeals. State will appeal the ruling for a new trial. Defense will appeal the judge not giving them what they wanted with alibi Asia. At least another year or two before those get resolved.

Unless the State of Maryland decides to cut him a plea deal--2nd degree/time served--and be done with it. Cuz that's all that would happen if/when they get to the end of their appeals and Adnan still has his new trial ticket. I don't see Maryland re-trying him.

I think he did it.

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Yeah, certainly deserved a retrial, but still probably did it.

I thought Adnan came close to admitting as much when he told the Serial chick: "I should have pled out"

First couple eps of season 3 released. Instead of focusing on a single case they are spending the season critically examining the broken criminal justice system via the lens of the Cleveland Justice Center. Inspired by Steve Bogira's book, Courtroom 302, about a year spent looking at Cook County criminal proceedings.

Second episode breaks down how the judges in the Cleveland system are predominantly Irish/Italian legacy jurists pedantically/patronizingly lecturing black defendants on their lifestyles/behaviors.

Adnan is out of jail. Is this the first dismissal due to basically crowd sourced criminal defense.

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For the life of me I don’t get the fascination with watching trials. I’d rather watch a recap show if at all.

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What is it you do get the fascination of?

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Wondering why people are entranced by plodding trials or the people who seem to stalk me to batch and moan.

And add nothing to any conversations around here lately.

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I’m gonna say yes

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What's your perspective as a lawyer. To me I think there's a lot of noise you might ignore. Jay knew stuff about the body/her car. How did he know? Sure, that makes him seem like a suspect. But he was with Adnan that day. Makes them both seem suspicious.

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I’m too far out of the loop to have a perspective on it. I think he probably got shafted on the “beyond a reasonable doubt” because all the evidence against him was circumstantial as I recall.

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more the crowd sourcing of bribe money to pay a recently un-elected, lame duck, on the way to prison DA to file paperwork dismissing the case against Adnan. Likely something that happens all the time, all across the country, but this time it happened in a high profile case.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/se ... -rcna77060


Does this mean what it appears to mean (i.e. they'll redo the process that led to setting him free with the same result, only this time the victim's family will be able to participate/observe/whatever) or is there potential for something else to happen

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my guess is they'll find the digital paper trail from Team Adnan to Marilyn Mosby's bank
account and tack on some extra charges for her upcoming criminal trial:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/baltimores-f ... team-quits

But Syed would have been eligible for parole next year, iirc, 1999-2024 = 25 years. And
given the movement toward leniency toward juvenile offenders--I believe Adnan was 17 when
killed Hae Min Lee, but 18 when convicted, there doesn't seem to be much point in re-trying him; other
than maybe confirmation that he really, really, really killed his ex-gf cuz she dumped him for an older dude with a job and a Camaro?

It's going to depend on who handles the hearing for the state. main reason Adnan
got set free is Mosby, fresh off an election loss and under indictment for various and sundry financial fuckery, laid down in court and did not advocate at all for upholding the conviction. Leaving
the judge with little choice except to accept the defense's side of the argument (apparently). So if either the Maryland AG's office (who was cheesed off at Mosby for pulling this stunt) handles the hearing or Mosby's replacement takes a more adversarial approach to the hearing, Syed could end up having to either take a plea deal to stay out or agree to return to prison and await a retrial.

They should do a postcard about Lucky Chrams and call it “Cereal”

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