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Guess I need to catch up on season 1 of T&J now, and refresh my memory of the case. I know I've forgotten a bunch of the little details.
Did anybody watch this the other day? I'm new to the case, but I'm already invested. It's hitting especially close to home because I graduated from high school in 1998.
I did, I enjoyed it. It's interesting to put faces to the people.
I'm really bummed about the court ruling. He definitely deserves a new trial with all the new info that has come out. I haven't read too much about the hearing but does anyone know what's going on with the cell phone data? I keep hearing it mentioned that it can't be included or something?
I think the Undisclosed podcast and Truth & Justice will have more details soon.
I’m not familiar with any new data and it’s been years so I’m going off shoddy memory, but I think cell data from then is no good bc the triangulation was so inaccurate back then. I suck at lawyer speak but the tools back then could show adnans phone pinging off a certain tower at an incriminating time, but modern tools can show the same ping bouncing off multiple towers in the area at that same time as it searched for the strongest signal to complete the call therefore he could theoretically he could be in a much larger area than the earlier data suggested. So now the old data becomes inadmissible
That's devastating that the ruling for a new trial was overturned. It's going to be very difficult to reverse or overrule that.
Honestly, I think the only thing that would change this is if you could prove the prosecution withheld significant exculpatory evidence from the defense, or if Jays testimony were undermined (or he recanted). I dont think saying the cell phone evidence is weak is enough alone.
I don't know if Serial fans (and/or T&J fans) also subscribe to Undisclosed, but here's an update on the case:
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/und...ast/e/63563389
We never did discuss The Case Agaibst Adnan Syed, the HBO miniseries.
I must say I was a little disappointed. It was really a story about Adnan’s lawyers’ attempts to get him a new trial, and not that much about the substance of the case itself. Specific pieces of evidence were described in great detail, if they were important to the appeal, but otherwise, I think a lot of the other evidence was just kind of glossed over.
Also, I would have loved to have heard from Hae’s family or from the police or prosecution lawyers. I guess there’s no benefit for them in participating - they have nothing to gain - but the show became very much Rabia’s Narrative, not a more objective view.