Serial Podcast Episode 10 Notes and Reflection

• Jury is asked if they had experienced crimes committed against them, or to someone they know
• Judge is getting rid of all types of biased mentality
• Adnan’s’ mom believes that their son is innocent
• His family believes that it was discrimination against him because they are Muslim “and minor in this country”
• Racism could have played a part
• Anti-Muslim
• Sarah doesn’t believe it
• Courtroom was filled with Muslim community that Adnan was from
• Complaints from prosecutor on allowing Adnan to be bailed out by his Muslim community members
• “Throwing stereotypes with facts”
• Prosecutors said that Adnan had killed Hae because of his cultural and traditional background
• He became angered, enraged
• “Honor Killings”
• Jay believes that he is not getting an benefit
• Defense witnesses for Adnan
• Character witnesses who had nice things to say about Adnan
• Cristina was a giant nationally and in Maryland
• Cristina has done other types of cases
• Cristina is getting sick during the Adnan case
• She wasn’t able to keep up with her cases

For episode ten, Sarah talks about the defense team of Adnan and how it played out in court and behind the scenes. Sarah starts off by talking about the Judge clearing out jurors that may have had some type of biased against Adnan and the specificities of the case.

When Sara had talked to Adnan’s mother about whether the police that investigated the case were discriminating against Adnan… she said yes. However, Sarah believed that that was not the case. I find it interesting that Sarah believed that they’re was no type of discrimination or racism playing out in the investigation and case. Its plausible that since this case happened before 9/11, there was not type of racist or discrimination happening. I still would throw out the possibility of it though. Especially when considering the racist history of the US.

Another aspect about this podcast that I found interesting was that Cristina’s health had started to decline while she had a load of cases to deal with. It seemed that Sarah was trying to get across to her listeners that the reason that the case basically fell apart… was because Cristina’s health was declining. Also her workload may have played a part. I believe that this information is important to consider when being critical of Adnan’s case because, all of these details play a part into this case.