re: Podcast Thread: “Undisclosed: The State v. Adnan Syed” begins April 13th

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How can Adnan not remember anything important about the most important day of his life

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It's only that important in hindsight. If he is innocent, then it was not an especially notable day. In fact, the state's witness testified how high Adnan was; that could likely have a detrimental on his memory. The only possible notable moment (when he was high at that) was the phone call from the police; however, that was only a few hours after Hae went missing. Not exactly uncommon for teenagers to be unaccounted for hours at a time. The vast majority of the time they return.

Besides Adnan provided details about that day, just like any day. It's not like he forgot every detail. If there was no reason to encode more specific details, then a memory is far less likely to be encoded and stored for later retrieval; that's pretty basic cognitive psychology.

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(Important to mention here that Jay is nonstop scorched for having a shaky memory

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His complete story changed multiple times. That's not likely to be a result of a changing memory.

According to Jay's most recent interview in The Intercept, the complete timeline from the trial is incorrect. Not to mention the location where he first saw the car and the conversation that led to "premeditation." Basically he has described an entirely new narrative (one of many).

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To everyone saying they wouldn't take a lie detector test what in the heck does he have to lose at this point?

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Do you understand that the lie detectors are not accurate. It has no practical value. He might as well just flip a coin (heads he's innocent; tails he's guilty). They are inadmissable in court because they aren't accurate.

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If I were 100% innocent I would be begging to take one

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And that would be a poor request by you. It's not an accurate test; in other words, it has not practical value.

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hey made a big deal about the janitor taking one but not a peep about the Adnan not taking one. It should have at least been discussed on the show bc of the janitor discussion.

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You don't seem to understand that it is junk science. I can only imagine that detectives use it as a tactic, not for the test itself, but to impact the behavior (and hopefully ignorance of the test) of the individual taking the test.

Regardless, it would have been pointless to focus on junk science that wasn't a part of the case. Might as well question why they didn't the Long Island Medium talk to Hae if we are going to bring non-used junk science into it.