Serial S01 - Ep. 8: The Deal With Jay

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🗓️ 13 November 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The state’s case against Adnan Syed hinged on Jay’s credibility; he was their star witness and also, because of his changing statements to police, their chief liability. Naturally, Adnan’s lawyer tried hard to make Jay look untrustworthy at trial. So, how did the jurors make sense of Jay? For that matter, how did the cops make sense of Jay? How are we supposed to make sense of Jay?

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0:00.0	Hello, serial listeners. This is Sarah Koenig. If you're listening to this show, I'm hoping that means that you're into it, and maybe you want to hear more stories like it. Well, you're in luck, because we've got a brand new show called The Idiot coming at the end of March, 26. Just like or follow this podcast, the serial podcast, on your podcast app, and you'll
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0:28.1	Okay, on to Serial, season one.
0:33.1	Previously on Serial.
0:36.1	I think, like, the odds of you getting the charming sociopath, you're just not that lucky.
0:40.9	So, but with Jay, it was more so kind of like, I don't know, in my mind, I was kind of like,
0:45.4	maybe the police are putting them up to this.
0:47.3	I said, what was your involvement?
0:50.5	Were you involved?
0:52.1	And he said, no.
0:53.8	Before you stated that you'd be willing to take us out
0:56.8	and show us where the vehicle's parked.
0:58.5	No problem.
0:59.4	Are you still willing to do that?
1:00.9	Yeah.
1:05.2	This is a global tell link pre-paid call from...
1:10.1	A non-say-in.
1:12.1	An inmate at, a Maryland correctional facility.
1:16.0	This call will be recorded and monitored.
1:17.9	If you wish to block any call to this natural... Okay, my name is Miss Stella Armstrong, Baltimore, Maryland.
1:37.6	And you were a juror on the Adnan-Sayed case, right?
1:42.4	Yes, I was.
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