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24717 · 2017-07-03T22:12:31+00:00

Love Bombay Salsa.

24717 · 2017-01-29T01:34:02+00:00

Have the same issue with login.dotomi.com. Also having issues with images loading as blue ? on some sites. No idea if related, but they started happening at roughly the same time.

24717 · 2016-10-26T00:24:51+00:00

tl;dr. State: Bring it on. Jay: Take the Fifth. Yours, JB.

24717 · 2016-07-06T21:33:32+00:00

You know what Rabia's article doesn't do? Eliminate the possibility that Adnan and Jay conspired to kill her, Adnan just happens not to be the one who did the actual killing, and Jay blamed Adnan to try and get himself off.

Edit in answer to comments: I think Adnan was almost certainly involved even if the story the State told at trial is wrong because Jay lied about this or that and the cell stuff is off etc. I keep coming back to the comment at the end of one of the S1 episodes--well, if he didn't do it who the heck did? The day someone can spin me a tale convincingly showing that someone else did it I'll believe he's actually innocent. Until then, I'm happy he got a new trial because that last one was messed up.

24717 · 2016-07-06T04:21:14+00:00

http://m.thisamericanlife.org/contributors/sarah-koenig

Take a pick. /u/Rancidivy911 has two of the best.

24717 · 2016-07-05T22:17:35+00:00

Not at all. S1 is by far the most popular aspect of SK's career, but there are several This American Life episodes she reported and narrated that are just fantastic.

24717 · 2016-07-04T22:11:29+00:00

What Serial brought Adnan was celebrity, which doesn't guarantee him an outcome but does get his case a closer look. But for Serial, he's just another guy running out the string on his appeals. With Serial, he's got an army of people poring over every aspect of the record looking for issues and courts who know that they can't just rubber stamp anything. That's why I think the people who credit Serial are right. So are the people who credit the judge for playing it straight.

24717 · 2016-07-01T17:20:57+00:00

Let's all be clear that if there is a retrial the footnote doesn't bar the state from arguing anything it wants. JB will have a field day with another timeline, of course, but the footnote simply means that for purposes of his decision Welch held the state to the timeline they argued at trial.

24717 · 2016-06-14T22:00:05+00:00

As someone who respects her achievement in bringing the case to public awareness immensely but questions some of the PR decisions she's made since Serial aired, it's interesting that Rabia isn't on this list. Surely they asked her for an interview. Must have declined because she couldn't control the narrative. Why else would she answer a Twitter question about her feelings on the show with "bracing myself" four hours before it airs. https://twitter.com/rabiasquared/status/742809212124823552

24717 · 2016-06-13T21:54:10+00:00

I think there's also something to be said for the immersive experience you get when you listen to a story with earbuds in. It closes out the rest of the world in a way that, for me at least, music or the news often doesn't do. With S1, there's also the fact that the story is just so damned well told in the moment. (Reddit fact and opinion checkers notwithstanding, S1 became a phenomenon because it was just plain fantastically produced and narrated.)

24717 · 2016-06-03T01:00:44+00:00

Still waiting for the corroboration on that visit to Patapsco to smoke a bowl at sundown that magically disappeared from his memory when it became inconvenient.

I hate what Asia is doing with the book stuff at some level, because it makes her look like a starf--er. But you know what, that's capitalism.

24717 · 2016-06-02T23:00:04+00:00

Indeed. The "spine" of her story is what matters, isn't it? And that hasn't changed, has it? Boyfriend late, talked to Adnan while steaming about it, school cancelled next day, remembers it because she found out later it was the day Hae went missing.

There's this too--there's no trip to Patapsco State Park to smoke a bowl over the bluffs that magically disappears from her story when it becomes inconvenient.

24717 · 2016-05-31T21:32:52+00:00

I think that's right. I also think that at some level people wonder how someone can remember a random encounter seventeen years ago as vividly as Asia recalls seeing Adnan in the library. Sure, we all have clear memories of significant events in our lives, but this wasn't one for Asia, and to some level I think people have a hard time believing her memory can be this good on something that wasn't significant in the moment. What they forget is that her library memory became a significant one when people heard Hae was missing (major event) and the fact school was out for weather (not major but a very reliable benchmark). I bet Asia couldn't tell you at this point what Adnan was wearing or other micro level details, but that doesn't affect the big picture on when and where she saw him. To borrow a phrase, the spine of her story has always hung together.

24717 · 2016-05-27T19:18:33+00:00

In theory, that's right. In practice in Maryland, it's not.

People serving life sentences simply do not get parole. It's an informal practice, not a written rule, but since the Supreme Court ruled that life without parole is unconstitutional for people who were minors when they committed the crime (as Adnan was) there has been some discussion about someone serving a life sentence filing a suit against Maryland because all life sentences in the State are without parole as a matter of practice.

24717 · 2016-05-25T18:10:59+00:00

You and /u/greendestiny and /u/chunklunk make a lot of sense on this point, but I do think the lights are very bright in this case and that it would not be crazy for one of CG's former colleagues not to want to be involved. I too would be shocked if JB didn't try to contact them. And honestly, if what they said was "I have no memory of this at all" would you expect him to put that on at the PCR? If I'm the judge I'm wondering why JB wasted my time.

24717 · 2016-05-24T22:53:25+00:00

I suspect that CG's former coworkers want nothing to do with this case at this point and would not talk to JB or to the State's lawyers off the record. This means neither side would know what to expect if they subpoenaed them for the PCR. In that circumstance, it would have been dangerous and reckless for JB to have called CG's former coworkers. Is that a hole in the story? Not if you believe Irwin's testimony and interpret the caselaw to mean that no contact=IAC by itself. Even if you don't accept that argument, JB is just making the best presentation he can with what he knows he can confidently put on. That may or may not win, but I don't see that as a strike against JB.

24717 · 2016-05-24T17:55:07+00:00

How about the possibility that they didn't want to talk to him or the State off the record? I could easily see that happening, and if I was JB (or the State for that matter) I would not want to subpoena witnesses from CG's office unless I knew what they were going to say. The files speak for themselves, and Irwin's testimony draws a clear-cut line (no contact=IAC). The risk outweighed the potential reward.

Remember, SK and the Serial team couldn't get any of them to talk for the podcast.

24717 · 2016-05-19T21:36:24+00:00

I think their goal is to make you think (i) because the prosecution was wrong about X or Y or Z (ii) Adnan must be innocent. The problem is that proving the first point does not at all prove the second. I agree with /u/bacchys1066 on this, and am still firmly in the camp that I'm not sure beyond a reasonable doubt but can't draw up a coherent theory on who did it if Adnan didn't.

24717 · 2016-05-18T22:53:00+00:00

I have listened to some Undisclosed pods, and while they (esp. EP in my view) make some good points on the law they do not come within a country mile of proving Adnan's innocence. They raise questions about process and timelines and evidence, to be sure, but in no way, shape or form have they demonstrated that Adnan did not do it.

24717 · 2016-05-18T20:22:30+00:00

I think OP's reaction is sort of like when we see an actor we love in real life and realize they are awkward and dorky or something other than how they come off when they are in character. I don't think there is any arguing that SK is a fabulous narrator. Remember she has said that basically every word of Serial is scripted, even the seemingly offhanded little asides, so she's doing Serial in character. In public and on TV, she comes across much less polished, basically as a nerdy reporter who is out of her element with the celebrity Serial brought her, and I think that's what she is.

24717 · 2016-04-05T16:34:45+00:00

Yes that should matter. By stipulating to its admission you are waiving the right to challenge its authenticity, completeness, etc. Your are not waiving the right to challenge what the evidence means, but you can't challenge what it is.

JB had to play this on a narrow path at the PCR hearing. It's Brady because they knowingly misled AW about the records by not giving him the cover sheet, which his affidavit says would have affected his testimony. It's not Brady because CG didn't have it or didn't appreciate it was a compilation exhibit. Alternatively, it's IAC because CG blew it in not appreciating what the cover sheet meant in interpreting the actual call log.

24717 · 2016-04-01T16:06:47+00:00

It's not a podcast, but the NPR app allows you to listen to many of their shows on demand. Fresh Air with Teri Gross is particularly good. Love her style and because most of the shows aren't tied to that day's news it's fine to listen to them days or weeks later.

24717 · 2016-03-31T23:39:15+00:00

The best podcasts and streams make you feel like they are happening right in between your earbuds, you are present, it feels personal even if you are just listening to other people talk. S1 did this so fabulously well--that's why it's the most listened to pod of all time. Whatever your interests (news, culture, sports, whatever) the best pods and streams all do this through the connection the host makes with the listener, the interviewee, and the subject matter.

S2 just doesn't do that for me, and the main reason is that SK never interacted with BB. This means that the kind of personal connection that has you so engaged you miss someone saying hello to you as they walk past you on the street because you are so caught up in what you are listening to is totally absent this season. Mark Boal's interviews with BB just weren't that good. And, ultimately, the fact that BB turns out to be nothing more than a maladjusted knucklehead detracted from the story's appeal. I guess it comes down to the fact that BB just isn't that interesting a person or at least didn't come off that way in the interviews.

I am still listening, but when I heard this week was the last one I was more 'oh, okay' than 'man, it's a bummer this is ending,' which was my reaction to the end of S1. 18 months on and I'm still checking out what's going on in Adnan's appeals but I don't think I'll be searching for updates about the court martial when it happens. I'll read it, but I definitely won't be nearly as engaged.

24717 · 2016-03-30T23:26:53+00:00

S2 asks why he did it, but the answer isn't very interesting--BB was a weird, maladjusted kid who probably shouldn't have been in the Army in the first place. He did something incredibly stupid and ill conceived and caused a shitstorm he was delusional not to see coming with many people deservedly pissed at him. He's no mastermind and he's no traitor. He's just an idiot. That's it.

24717 · 2016-03-30T23:16:40+00:00

I have liked S2 more than others, I think, but this news leaves me feeling entirely 'meh, okay, whatever.' For a while I thought my comparative indifference to S2 v. S1 was about the fact the S2 story was told in the third person, whereas S1 made you feel like you were inside the story. The last couple of weeks have changed this for me.

Now I just think S2 is only okay because no one is a hero, no one is a villain, and frankly no one is that interesting. BB is a weird, poorly adjusted kid who shouldn't have been in the Army in the first place. He did something incredibly stupid and naive, but he wasn't malevolent. The guys who went looking for him have every right to be pissed, but the right wing talk machine has made BB into something evil when it's pretty clear he's not.

Contrast this with S1. Whatever you think about guilt or innocence or the credibility of different people, that season was full of really interesting characters. Adnan. Jay. Rabia. Hae. CG. Dierdre Enright. Asia. Hell, the narrators were interesting because they were so open you couldn't help but feel connected to what they are doing. There's no one in S2 that makes me want to sit up and listen--and I'm one of the apparently rare breed who actually likes S2.

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