re: I just now finished the Serial podcast

Of course, the check on that which the system accounts for is the defense attorney that is paid to dissect the state's case, and present her own.

The podcast has no such built in check.


Now, I understand there is a claim that the defense attorney was not competent in her defense of Adnan. That will be decided by the appellate court. I predict, for the first time in this thread, that ineffective assistance of counsel will NOT be found. I actually think she was a bulldog in her cross examination, no matter how insufferable her voice was , and suspect there were reasons for not putting certain witnesses on the stand that we don't know about from Serial. It is a strategic decision that she would have made after judging the witnesses and their credibility and reliability in her own professional expertise.

Whatever issues arise later in her career, she was a respected and feared defender in her day.


It would be an easy out for the panel, though, if they just want it off their plate without the backlash of the Serial drones. The attorney is dead, so they wouldn't even have to offend or hang a fellow member of the Bar out to dry to do so.


It will be interesting to watch this all play out, for sure.