Hi and welcome to Undisclosed. Today's episode is Closing Thoughts. This is going to be our fifth and final episode in the special series of episodes we've done to cover Adnan's PCR appeal hearing.

My name is Rabia Jadri. I'm an attorney and fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and I blog at Split the Moon.com.

I'm joined with my colleagues, Susan Simpson and Colin Miller.

Susan is an associate at the Volkov Law Group in Washington, D.C., and she blogs at the View from L.L.2, and Colin is an associate dean and professor at the University of South Carolina School

of Law, and he blogs at the Evidence Prof blog.

Now, in our past four episodes, we've gone over the four days of the appeal hearing that took

place just last month.

Today we'll close out the series on the PCR with day five,

all of which was devoted to closing arguments by both sides. Now, I had been sitting at the Dunkin' Donuts

since the previous week, but on this final day of closing arguments, I was finally able to get

into court. In case you don't remember, I had been sequestered because the prosecutor, Theru

Vigna Raja, had argued to the court that he might call me as a witness.

Well, he never did, and he had never even put me on any witness list before the hearing, but maybe he slept just a little bit better, having kept me out of the courtroom just for the heck of it.

Nonetheless, the hearing now was over, so I got to join the others to see how both sides would close out their arguments for Judge Welch.

Justin Brown, Adnod's attorney, began the day with his closing arguments, and it was

interesting because he started off by saying something that probably had been bothering

him for the last few days.

He realized that things had gotten heated in the courtroom more than once.

From what I heard, there were quite a few very dramatic moments.

So he started off by thanking the court for the court's patient because things got heated.

He also did something else that really almost moved me to tears.

He went behind Adnan and put his hands on

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