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Serial - Serial S03 - Ep. 5: Pleas Baby Pleas

Don’t tell the judges, but the prosecutors have the most power in the building.

Serial S03 - Ep. 5: Pleas Baby Pleas

And don't you think you owe it to him to tell this jury who shot this little boy and

The defense attorney came to me at the first pre-trial and said you're going to dismiss

You, sir, are going to be looking at the harshest possible that.

Like every time I go outside, I just look at everybody different.

From this American life in W.E.Z. Chicago, it's serial.

One courthouse told week by week, I'm Sarah Canig.

This is one of those cases that is so puzzling because so many people are so certain of what

they saw who was involved and we just have no way of knowing what it is and what it

Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system.

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0:00.0	You try to help this old boy?
0:02.5	Right.
0:03.5	Okay.
0:04.5	Previously on serial.
0:06.5	And don't you think you owe it to him to tell this jury who shot this little boy and
0:11.6	not be afraid anymore, sir?
0:13.5	The defense attorney came to me at the first pre-trial and said you're going to dismiss
0:16.5	this.
0:17.5	You, sir, are going to be looking at the harshest possible that.
0:21.4	Okay.
0:22.4	It pisses me all the way off.
0:24.9	Like every time I go outside, I just look at everybody different.
0:27.8	Like, you know what happened.
0:28.8	But you want to say nothing.
0:31.0	I don't think that's what happened.
0:32.6	That's my lawyer, Tub.
0:34.4	He said that's why you're getting out?
0:36.2	Yeah.
0:38.6	From this American life in W.E.Z. Chicago, it's serial.
0:45.2	One courthouse told week by week, I'm Sarah Canig.
0:49.4	This is one of those cases that is so puzzling because so many people are so certain of what
0:55.9	they saw who was involved and we just have no way of knowing what it is and what it
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Serial S03 - Ep. 5: Pleas Baby Pleas

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