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Serial - Serial S03 - Ep. 6: You in the Red Shirt

Serial S03 - Ep. 6: You in the Red Shirt

In your experience as a police officer, can you smell raw marijuana in a bag inside someone's pocket?

I probably put more people on probation than any other judge in this court house.

Yeah, because I can always put them in prison later.

I don't think he had anything to do with that office.

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

I was talking to this guy, Kevin, 40 years old.

He'd been busted for giving someone at his college a marijuana cookie.

He thought the guy understood what it was.

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0:00.0	Previously on cereal.
0:03.0	In your experience as a police officer, can you smell raw marijuana in a bag inside someone's pocket?
0:09.0	Yes.
0:10.0	I probably put more people on probation than any other judge in this court house.
0:14.0	Yeah, because I can always put them in prison later.
0:17.0	Right?
0:18.0	I don't think he had anything to do with that office.
0:21.0	I don't want to be a rat.
0:23.0	He's a little rat on your guy.
0:25.0	I think currently he has.
0:27.0	How can you help us do that?
0:29.0	What's the solution?
0:30.0	How can I help you?
0:36.0	From this American life in W.E.Z. Chicago, it's cereal.
0:39.0	One courthouse told week by week.
0:41.0	I'm Sarah Canick.
0:55.0	I was talking to this guy, Kevin, 40 years old.
0:58.0	He'd been busted for giving someone at his college a marijuana cookie.
1:01.0	He'd offered it as a nice gesture.
1:03.0	Really, just, hey, have one.
1:05.0	He thought the guy understood what it was.
1:07.0	Wink, wink.
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Serial S03 - Ep. 6: You in the Red Shirt

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