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We know Jay lied. The prosecution admitted he was a liar at the time. Then Serial came out and he gave an Intercept interview with an entirely new version of events that renders the cell phone evidence irrelevant.
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Jenn is Jay’s friend. Not hard to believe they made up a story for the reward money.
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Don is irrelevant. He didn’t say anything bad about Syed.
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Adnan’s teacher has no real evidence. Whenever someone dies they’re suddenly everyone’s best friend. When someone is murdered people imagine they knew something intriguing.
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The school nurse said that after the fact Syed seemed to be faking sadness/catatonia. Faking symptoms to get out of class doesn’t make one a murderer.
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The detectives also had no evidence other than Jay.
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The medical expert said he found fibers under Hae’s body that didn’t match Jay or Syed. He also missed that fact that she had frontal lividity despite supposedly being buried sideways and supposedly pretzeled in the trunk of a car on her side for eight hours.
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The cell phone expert testified at the appeal that he’d never seen the AT&T cover sheet saying incoming calls aren’t usable for determining location and that he would have testified differently at trial if he’d known. That’s why the conviction was overturned in the first place.
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If he was planning to kill Hae do you really believe he’d ask for a ride after school in front of a bunch of other people? Also, do you believe that the people who said they saw her later tell him she couldn’t give him a ride because something came up are lying? That’s the whole point here. Hae said she was in a hurry after school and couldn’t give him a ride. Asia says she was with Syed in the library until 2:40. If Hae was in a hurry she’d have been long gone by 2:40. Remember, Asia was pissed because her boyfriend was LATE coming to get her. School had been out for a while.
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Other than Jay, there is nobody else who even purports to have actual evidence of a crime.
Here’s the thing. At my last firm we won an acquittal for a guy who confessed to arson on tape. How? The timeline was too tight. We had a witness who placed him elsewhere at a time when it would have been difficult, but not impossible, to have committed the crime. The guy recanted his confession and the jury acquitted. It wasn’t amazing lawyering that did it. It was the timeline. The timeline in Syed’s case is even tighter if Asia is allowed to testify. It doesn’t work. So then you’ve got Asia on one hand and Jay, who isn’t credible, on the other. A competent lawyer would point out that the timeline just doesn’t work. That the fibers found underneath the body didn’t belong to either Syed or Jay so someone else had to be there. That frontal lividity makes no sense if Jay’s story is remotely true. That literally no physical evidence places Syed at the scene. That Jay testified he didn’t leave Jenn’s house until almost 4:00 yet somehow also claimed he was in the car with Syed for the Nisha call almost an hour earlier. The alibi, the fibers, lividity - those things are really good evidence. Jay’s shaky testimony and some cell phone evidence that AT&T says can’t be relied on for location are crappy evidence. That’s reasonable doubt every day of the week and twice on Sunday. You can take that to the bank.
