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Serial

S01 - Ep. 10: The Best Defense is a Good Defense

Serial

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True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Adnan’s trial lawyer was M. Cristina Gutierrez, a renowned defense attorney in Maryland – tough and savvy and smart. Other lawyers said she was exactly the kind of person you’d want defending you on a first-degree murder charge. But Adnan was convicted, and a year later, Gutierrez was disbarred. What happened?

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0:00.0

Previously on, on cereal.

0:02.0

There's no way that she was at best by at 236.

0:06.0

Did anybody else use to find?

0:09.0

Yeah, um, Adn on, I remember he was talking to a girl.

0:14.0

He put me on the phone with her for like three minutes.

0:16.0

I said hello to her.

0:17.0

To be a 17-year-old kid,

0:20.0

with the system, no experience with any of this stuff, it's very difficult to believe in the

0:24.8

early stages that this is actually what's happening this must be just a huge

0:28.4

mistake

0:30.4

this is a global tell link, a call from

0:35.0

a non-say it.

0:37.0

An inmate at a Maryland correctional facility.

0:42.0

It's called to be recorded and monitored. and and W. E. Z. Chicago, it's serial. One story told week by week. I'm Sarah

0:54.2

Canig. Today's episode is mostly going to take place in the courtroom and

0:59.6

before we get into the arguments at trial I just want to play you this thing from a

1:03.6

non's jury selection. I used to be a reporter for the Baltimore Sun and I covered

1:08.1

some trials and if I happen to be in the courtroom for jury selection, it was

1:12.1

always such a good reminder of what living in Baltimore was like for so many people.

1:17.0

Here's what I'm talking about.

1:19.0

December 8, 1999, jury selection for Adnan's first trial.

1:23.0

Judge William Quarrels asks a standard question of the jury pool.

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