re: I just now finished the Serial podcast

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Wait, so confessions are iron clad proof???? Well shite, why did I spend so much times as a prosecutor fighting to get them admitted?? And so many years after as a defense attorney fighting to keep them out???

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What?

In this case:

1. Person A was convicted.

2. Person B, who was a suspect, later confessed to the detective.

3. The detective chose to dismiss the confession himself because he didn't think it had any information that the true perpetrator would know.

4. Decades later, DNA exonerated Person A and confirmed that Person B did it.

5. It was later found that Person B's confession actually included information only the true perpetrator would be privvy to.

So the detective's (one of the primary detectives on Adnan's case) erroneous and dishonest decision to dismiss the confession resulted in an innocent man spending decades in jail.

So the detective suppressed the truth; why should we put faith in his competency as a detective?