Agreed. I don't think I'd ever even heard of "sours" before about 18 months ago (and I've been an expanding beer nerd of sorts for the better part of 10-15 years now), but it seems like 75% of the new stuff I've seen lately (certainly over this past summer and going back to summer 2015) have been sours. It's…

Or, he's lying (at the behest of the cops and DA, perhaps) to keep his own behind out of jail for other reasons. There's a theory that the cops had info on him (likely on his drug involvement) and that after they settled on Adnan as their main suspect and found out about his entanglement with Adnan that day (had his…

Yeah, I mis-typed, or just screwed up my thinking, in my haste. A jury doesn't find a person "innocent", they find them "not guilty". I did cover that a ways below, but didn't circle back around to my original post. Sorry.

Sigh. OK, I used some incorrect terminology. I get frustrated when people do that around my area of expertise, so I'll concede that. Yeah, a person is not found "innocent", they are found "not guilty", but you know what I mean, no?

I don't think anybody's forgotten that fact. But if Adnan is found to be innocent (which I think is pretty likely, given the evidence that's been amassed since his original trials), I'm not sure how justice is served by having the wrong guy sitting in jail for 16+ years. I'd say that it's more likely that justice will…

I guess I don't understand this argument. It seems that there were a bunch of things (veracity of the cell phone records, lividity evidence, potential alibi witnesses galore, including one that had reached out unprompted to offer her story, a sole prosecution witness who had a spectacularly shaky and changeable story…

I suggest picking a couple episodes of Undisclosed over this long weekend and taking a listen.

My comment is going to distill down to this: listen to the Undisclosed podcast. Even if you don't read any further than this, you really should pick and episode or two and check it out. It should be interesting to you, if for no other reason, to hear somebody other than Sarah Koenig talk about the case.

Point taken, I guess, even though I happen to have done a lot of thinking about said arguments and have come to my own conclusion that they seem to have a lot of merit. But, there's good news here. Since there's going to be an actual new trial, we're going to get to hear every bit of this stuff that I've been…

Tell you what, then: do some reading up on "livor mortis" and then take a look at the autopsy of Hae Min Lee. Then get back to us on whether or not you think it's probable that the time line put forth by the state of Maryland is correct on Adnan and Jay burying her a handful of hours after she was strangled (between…

Bingo. It's kind of shocking to read all the comments from folks who think that all there is to know about this case was confined to the 12 episodes of Serial Season 1.

Uh, along with some stuff that most folks would think are "biased", they present a whole lot of stuff that is incontrovertible fact. Along with a long look at what the Baltimore PD did and didn't do (for a single instance of many: only pulled cell phone records for Adnan's phone and one other Muslim lady, never…

Did you do any reading about the case or listen to any of the other podcasts about it? Or was the majority of what you know about the case confined to the 12 episodes of Serial? There was a LOT of stuff going on in this case that Sarah Koenig, for whatever reason (didn't understand it, didn't make for interesting…

Just to make one thing clear, the aforementioned cell phone records and their veracity at proving Syed's whereabouts is one of the main reasons that the case is being reopened. Seems that somebody somewhere omitted a fax cover sheet that said (I'm paraphrasing, and way too lazy to actually look up and quote the…

"It really takes a lot of bending over backwards to come up with flimsy theories of his innocence."

No question that Undisclosed is biased (and they do occasionally drive me a little crazy with some of the conclusions that they pull together from only lightly-related facts), but they've uncovered a lot of actual, substantive evidence that has poked TONS of holes in the State's case from the original trial(s). This…

On the other hand, when Syed was originally arrested and taken in for questioning, apparently the cops were able to get absolutely nothing out of him in something like 6 or 8 hours worth of interrogation (where he didn't have legal representation by his side, due to some pretty crazy sounding thing about "you must be…

There are like six or more factual inaccuracies in that one paragraph you just wrote. I'd suggest picking even a single episode of one of the "Serial follow-up" podcasts (that'd be "Undisclosed" and "Truth and Justice with Bob Ruff") and you'd get a better idea of A) Syed's actual defense, B) the timeline suggested by…