He declared that the investigation was better than most of the ones that he's seen. So what struck me most about "The Deal With Jay," this week's episode, was the statement of the retired detective who the podcast hired for his expertise on the subject of false confessions. Last week, lawyers from the Innocence Project looked at the case and felt sufficiently strong doubts about its outcome to dedicate scarce resources to their own investigation. Past episodes have chronicled a number of discrepancies in the prosecution's narrative. This case seemed weak enough at the outset for Sarah Koenig to spend months delving into it. But if Serial listeners haven't yet figured out if a miscarriage of justice was perpetrated, we have at least gotten a glimpse at how the criminal justice system works. Certainly nothing aired so far exonerates Adnan Syed, the man convicted of the crime. Tanya Basu, Conor Friedersdorf, Adrienne LaFrance, and Katie Kilkenny discuss the latest episode of WBEZ Chicago's popular non-fiction podcast Serial.įriedersdorf: Eight episodes into the Serial podcast, there still isn't any certainty about who killed Hae Min Lee.
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