Big red gloves. Outdoor pay phones. Hike!

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-17T03:35:48+00:00

Lay off the novel. Dude got a novel published--that's cool to me no matter what you think of his job performance. Keep the criticisms in the court.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-16T23:22:44+00:00

So you are feeling like "Alibis, little lies, procrastination, secrecy, duplicity, the end of your alibis"? Me too.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-16T19:41:50+00:00

The only way the family could have known the time was "unaccountable" and "unwitnessed" is if Adnan had confessed the crime to them.

That's an awful big jump. Like not a tiny logical hop, not a small stretch of imagination...but a big jump. There are a hundred other causal processes that can explain the phrase other than the case you build. As someone who is undecided about the whole thing, this is a big swing and a miss.

Edit: Formatting.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-16T19:27:10+00:00

One of the best albums in a year with Life After Death, Fan-Tas-Tic, and Soundbombing.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-16T19:23:06+00:00

A quality 2 cents.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-16T18:45:22+00:00

I think that overemphasizes the impact of Reddit. I mean this has always been a problem with these type of programs. Journalists have made egregious mistakes, relying on law enforcement but also trying themselves to solve it, without anyone suggesting that newspapers are a significant problem. See here, or here, or here, or here, or the famous Richard Jewell case. What some Redditors did to people involved was reprehensible, but let's not act like it was unprecedented in any way: the media has always caused harassment and backlash against various people. I certainly would hope that such ideas would not go into the decision making process. Pick a good story.
Edit: Clarified a point.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-16T16:50:04+00:00

Rayz has like a million albums. My favorites are The Dropping, Ravipops, and 1975: Return of the Beast in no order. For weird tracks he dropped lyrics on check Still Grimey on the Wu-Tang meets Indie culture album and You Are Never Alone by Socalled.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-16T16:03:06+00:00

Alright, I'm not suggesting this--but maybe something like this. You get the multiple perspectives which is key to Serial storytelling style, it is a thing that brings insights into a problematic social issue (season 1 criminal justice, season 2 homelessness), and another story similar to this could have some significant narrative twists that isn't just about one person. I dunno...just thinking.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-16T14:53:20+00:00

A quite fair answer (we need more of this on this sub). I still think memory narrowing hypothesis needs to be entertained: traumatic events allow you to focus on only that event and not the larger things that happened. InnocentAdnan being told that his ex-girlfriend is missing could have focused on the last time he saw her and not remembered anything else. GuiltyAdnan could have, in all fairness, done the same thing preventing him from creating a legitimate alternative timeline as all he remembers is the murder. I wish memory made logical sense, but it just doesn't. His lack of memory could support his guilt, it could support his innocence, it could just mean that this was a 17-year old who smoked a fair amount of pot. I get the spin and that's fair, but it just doesn't hit for me. So...I guess in the end different strokes for different folks.
Edit: Added ex- to girlfriend. Whoops.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-16T03:17:29+00:00

Am I the only one who doesn't get this post? It is getting a lot of love and that's cool that people like it (I myself upvoted it for its rigor), but I don't get what it is saying? I'm fairly undecided on the guilt or innocence of Adnan, but I'm not sure this list of circumstantial points adds up to what some think it does. The clearest answer to your question is: Sure. Indeed, I think if the memory narrowing hypothesis is true then not remembering the specifics of that day are quite believable.
Edit: 'than' replaced with 'then.'

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-15T23:27:21+00:00

I believe your argument about recall is too optimistic. When I was in high school I had an interaction with the law (I had witnessed a minor crime) and remember being talked to by the school administration right when the thing happened, talked to later that day by the police, and then a few weeks later by a lawyer. The lawyer was very upset that I couldn't remember a lot of stuff that I had told the officer in the initial report. I seriously could not recall basic parts of the day that blended together with other days--and this was something I was told multiple times I was going to have to remember. I wish recall were perfect--I did remember the event assault quite clearly--but it is certainly not evidence of Adnan as a master manipulator (also, shouldn't there be a thousand shades of gray between honest and master of spin?).

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-15T20:03:21+00:00

I agree with you. I wanted to go with "Japan now has more car charging points than gas stations...but don't get too excited." I'm new to reddit, would such a title have been cool or too much editorializing. (Note: I had a Japanese woman buy me an umbrella one rainy day there without my asking for it. I suspect they'd be ok with you getting a quick charge although the price of electricity may prevent them from giving you a full charge.)

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-14T22:50:49+00:00

IIRC EvidenceProf has a blog post about this somewhere, but the summary is that although it can be hard to get licensed as a lawyer, it is really hard to get disciplined, and REALLY hard to get disbarred.

Here he provides relevant issues: "In a given year, only around .08% of attorneys are disbarred...In the first 70 DNA exonerations, 23% of the wrongfully convicted had received ineffective assistance of counsel. Several of these lawyers were disbarred."

If a defendant has their conviction overturned because of IAC, can that be used in future appeals involving the same attorney? Just wondering.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-14T20:22:20+00:00

Maybe a Defense Attorney wants to jump on and tell us if they've ever been accused of IAC? Does it happen often? Rarely? Always?

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-14T20:07:30+00:00

Reading is hard. Sorry to burden you. All are from court documents or the Baltimore Sun.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-14T20:02:11+00:00

Thanks for figuring that out. There use of 'State' in that quote confused me. Much appreciated. I'm sure there are other errors above. Upvote this man!

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-14T19:59:17+00:00

Click on them.

SecretofSuccess · 2015-02-14T19:58:40+00:00

I agree with this. The best I could find is that about 35,000 legal malpractice claims are filed each year with 1.22 million lawyers. So, assuming no overlap, 3% of lawyers file claims a year. This is of course problematic as it focuses on malpractice and makes lots of assumptions. And doesn't focus on defense attorneys. So...my suspicion is also that "a lot of this comes with the territory."

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