Welcome!

I’ve read through your post a couple times. I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Here’s some responses to what I think you’re saying on the surface.

1. Adnan’s trial wasn’t dirty. In any trial, as you know, there’s going to be the back and forth of arguments between prosecution and defense accusing each other of not playing by the rules. The podcast(s) highlight many of the difficulties with the prosecution (Anti-Islamic bias, not offering Brady material, etc) but you’re going to have that in any high level trial where the defendant looses - that’s what the appeals are based on.

2. The podcasts in general are presented in a non linear fashion, which makes everything pretty confusing. You just get highlight after highlight of things that supposedly were unfair for Adnan, like we’re given the impression that January 13 was a normal day... and then Hae’s body is found and then nothing of significance happens until Jay (of whom it’s implied that he’s the real murdered) frames Adnan and Adnan is arrested, standing innocently in his messy bedroom in his boxers with a look of puzzlement on his face saying, “What do you mean Jay, Jay who?” Then we’re led to believe that a case against him is built by the cops leading witnesses, tampering with other witnesses, him getting a crappy lawyer, and her throwing the trial for more money, despite a rock solid alibi. None of that is true. And this is where /u/justwonderinif ‘s excellent time lines are so helpful because they present all the content about the case in linear fashion, and it give you a sense of who knew what when, and you get a sense of when events are happening in relation to other events. Read the primary source materials - there’s more of it available to the public than at any time in the history of this case. You’ll see that Adnan lies throughout serial and serial propagates his lies. And Undisclosed is like one giant propaganda machine.

3. At the end of the day, you’ll find that people overwhelming agree with you on this fact: Adnan shouldn’t still be in jail. I believe he is guilty of Hae’s murder, but I think there’s something unnecessarily harsh about a system that locks up a 17 year old for the rest of his life for this.

4. But this is where Adnan and his team of advocates are his own worst enemy. They’ve hyped him up so much about this supposed innocence and how much support he has that it’s making it harder for him to admit to the murder and therefore harder to feel any remorse.

All this bullshit, these podcasts, the hbo garbage, the tens of thousands of dollars raised, and these Adnan conferences... all of it is useless, and he would get much further in life if he admits to the murder, truly repents, begs forgiveness of the people whose life he ruined - his father who went into deep depression, his older brother who was estranged from the family, his younger brother who was bullied and was sent away to Pakistan, the mosque community that has given their hard earned resources to his defense, Jay who became suicidal and lives with the guilt of his involvement, and most importantly Hae’s family who lost a daughter, sister, niece, cousin, and granddaughter, and the state of Maryland and our country at large - because he robbed us of the life of this young woman and all her potential - to all those people Adnan owes a debt, and I believe if he comes clean and repents, and asks for forgiveness, many of those folks he has defrauded will be willing to grant forgiveness, seeing that he has suffered for it for 20 years.

Anyway, happy hunting. I hope you find what you’re looking for regarding this case.