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Undisclosed: Toward Justice

audioBoom Q&A Pt.4: Susan Simpson

Undisclosed: Toward Justice

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News, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Susan Simpson answers listener questions about the case of Adnan Syed. This interview includes questions from Emily Lewis, Tim Christian and Tom Olson.

Produced for AudioBoom by Jeremy Helton and Carl Scott. Music by @thesonicdrifter

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Jeremy Helton, and this is the fourth installment of Audio Boom's exclusive Q&A with the creators of Undisclosed.

0:07.7

Susan Simpson is back to answer more questions about the case of Adnan-Sayed.

0:13.3

Our first question comes from Tom Olson.

0:16.5

He wants to know, will Asia McLean's testimony about Adnon's alibi stand up to cross-examination?

0:23.0

Based on the facts that I've seen, yes, I don't know if there's more out there. I don't know

0:27.0

if they have something that we don't. But there is nothing that I've seen that would make me

0:32.9

concerned for her testimony standing up. And is it possible she has the wrong day?

0:37.9

Yeah, of course it is.

0:39.1

But given that the prosecution's witnesses

0:40.6

definitely had the wrong day in several instances,

0:43.4

the fact she might possibly have the wrong day,

0:45.7

but can't be proven to have the wrong day,

0:47.7

doesn't make her testimony worthless.

0:51.1

This question comes from Emily Lewis.

0:53.5

I don't understand why Gutierrez allowed witnesses

0:56.0

to change their stories or say they didn't remember facts to which they'd already testified.

1:01.3

Was this the biggest weakness in Gutierrez's defense of Adnan? Witnesses can change their story.

1:06.9

They often do. But what you do then, it's called impeachment, where you confront the witness with their prior statements and say, well, here's what you said then.

1:15.9

Why did you change?

1:17.0

Or which one's the truth?

1:19.1

And to some extent, she did do that a couple of times, but there's at least three or four occasions, like with Debbie, where the witness changes her story in a way

1:28.0

that was in favorable, Dodon, and Goodyear's does nothing. She doesn't even seem to realize

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