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Serial

The Deal With Jay

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 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

Previously on cereal.

0:02.0

I think like the odds of you getting the charming sociopath you're just not that lucky.

0:08.0

So, but with Jay it was more so kind of like, I don't know in my mind I was kind of like,

0:12.0

maybe the police are putting them up to this I said what was your involvement when you involved and he said no

0:20.8

before you stated that you'd be willing to take us out and show us where the vehicle is part.

0:25.0

No problem.

0:27.0

Are you still willing to do that?

0:28.0

Yes.

0:29.0

Yes.

0:30.0

This is a global tell link prepaid call from

0:37.0

A non-seion

0:39.0

An inmate at from Maryland Correctional Facility.

0:43.0

This call will be recorded and monitoring if you wish to block any call for the

0:47.0

for the signature. Okay, my name is Miss Stella Armstrong, Baltimore, Maryland.

1:05.0

And you were a juror on the Unun-Sayed case, right?

1:09.0

Yes, I was.

1:11.0

From this American life in W-B-E.Z. Chicago, it's serial, one story

1:14.5

told week by week. I'm Sarah Canig. I wanted to know from Stella Armstrong why she

1:20.1

voted to convict Anansayed. She immediately talked about Jay, that she believed she was supposedly his friend who had enabled him to move the body.

1:36.0

Right.

1:37.0

And that struck me that, why would you admit to doing something that

1:43.4

you mean for what reason what was he going to gain from that he still had to go to jail yeah

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