It’s been a dog’s age since I listened to the first season of Serial. I remember coming away from it with two distinct impressions:

When I read that, I was like “that’s it? That’s how you assuage your guilty conscience for getting this guy off for raping a child, and making a lot of money for doing it?”

Is his old lawyer retired or looking to get disbarred? How can he do this?

Ultimately, so long as everyone puts whatever issues and preferences they have aside after the primary and votes along Democratic party line, I’ll be happy.

Anyone else still read it as “Frye” at first?

I’m sorry you felt it was terrible

Why is this a headline? Appealing a conviction is a standard operating procedure. Why would Cosby’s attorneys not appeal?

I will never forgive NY State voters for depriving us of having First Spouse Rojo Caliente. 

Rojo Caliente!! <3

She was 22 and by no means the first of his affairs. He was married and the president she was 22 and yet we are still blaming her. Bill wasn’t some angel I think there were accusations of assault and maybe rape against him. She didn’t destroy a happy marriage. She was treated so horribly by Clinton and the people that…

As an avid reader myself:

I need you to answer this one very serious question fully and completely: at any point does any person get clubbed to death with an overly tough roast.

I was just about to comment asking if this had a Serial Mom vibe! Now I might actually have to see it.

I got to see an advanced screening of this a couple weeks ago and what really struck me was that it’s NOTHING like what the trailers try to paint it as. I went in expecting pure noir mystery but what I got was off-the-rails camp and I LOVED IT.

She’s perfect. She has that wholesome-at-first-glance-but-oh-there’s-a-slightly-sinister-edge thing down pat. It really works for taking Melissa Joan Hart’s Girl Next Door sweetness and skewing it so that there’s something uncanny about her. That big smile could be grinning innocently over a birthday cake but with a…

There’s no suck thing as a right to a second chance. Nor is this about one person’s rights versus another’s. There are however rights that are universal and inalienable, and that even criminals are entitled to. There is such a thing as due process, the right to a fair trial and a sentence that is proportional. You…

YES. This is why I am opposed to “victim impact statements”. Sentences should be decided based on the crime, the verdict, and the laws of that jurisdiction, period. Not whether a victim or victim’s loved ones are willing and able to address the court. Should the murderer of a homeless person with no one to give an…

I understand that if it were up to the victim (and, I’m sure, many more), who is understandably traumatized, this person would never be released. But she’s served her entire sentence - what more can you ask for at that point? She served all 15 years of it (possibly more from what I can tell).

Thanks for that explanation.

Essentially, she did her time and is being released. I’m not saying justice was served but she wasn’t really cut any breaks either.