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porkinz t1_j1lve46 wrote

I only perused the serial subreddit occasionally, but over time, most people became guilters in the sense that there was no way he wasn’t involved. The state did a lot of shady shit that absolutely should get him off due to technicality, but that doesn’t mean he was involved. Just that the DA decided not to pursue it again because it’s a stain on their establishment, so they want to bury it instead of ending up finding more bad apples in the justice system.

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SpaceTabs t1_j1m1lhg wrote

I was convinced it wasn't him when the phone data was impeached. That was seven years ago in 2015. Serial podcast was in 2014. The only people I heard implicating him are the victim's family, and the MD Attorney General Brian Frosh in 2019, but he was obviously wrong.

Fun fact: this month the MD Court of Special Appeals was renamed to the MD Supreme Court.

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md4024 t1_j1pwvte wrote

Yeah, regardless of whether or not he deserved to be convicted, there's almost no chance he wasn't involved with the murder. He clearly had a plan to fake car trouble to get the victim alone after school, he failed to come up with a realistic explanation for where he was and what he was doing during the time period when the murder took place, and he was the only potential suspect who had the motive, means, and opportunity to commit the crime. If Adnan truly had nothing to do with the murder, his accomplice who confessed to helping dispose of the body - no matter how unreliable that accomplice was - would have been taking an enormous risk that Adnan wouldn't be able to come forward with an airtight, provable alibi that exposed the entire story as a lie. Sadly, this seems like a pretty clear case of domestic violence and a teenager who couldn't handle being rejected. I don't think it's a huge tragedy or anything that Adnan was released, but it's also not a case where a clearly innocent person was wrongfully convicted.

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