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Hi and welcome to the ninth episode of Undisclosed, the State v. Adnan Sayyad.

My name is Rabia Chaudhry.

I'm a lawyer and national security fellow at the New America Foundation, and I'm joining my colleagues, Susan Simpson, who's an attorney with a local blog group in Washington, D.C., and she blogs with the view from LL2.

And we also have with us, as always, Colin Miller, who is an associate dean and professor at the University of South Carolina, and Colin blogs at the Evidence Prof blog, where he's also the

blog editor.

At the end of last week's addendum, I shared my theory that in this case, the police had

fixed on Adnan and then set off to build a case against him, instead of properly investigating

all leads and actually seeking out the truth of what happened to Hay. So as they began digging

deeper into Adnan, they realized that, oh wow, his car and phone were not with him all day.

They were actually with Jay.

And because of that, they had to bring Jay into the narrative.

Now, I recognize that when I say this, it sounds almost conspiratorial to some folks.

We get this reaction quite often.

I mean, why on earth would the police do that? What was in it for them? Did they have a vendetta against Adnan?

And forget the police, what about Jay? Why on earth would Jay implicate himself in a crime unless he was actually involved in that crime?

And by the way, the jury thought the same thing. Why would he cooperate with police to nail the crime on

Adan and how on earth would the police get him to do that? What did they have over him other than

pot charges? So we're going to discuss all that today and by the end of this episode, you'll

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