Continuing the Serial discussion from BB (spoilers)
Posted by
rollo
Dec 29 '14, 11:47
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Regarding the motive discussion around point 1. Adnan had motive, by definition. He has a connection/relationship to the victim which makes him automatically a suspect. The fact that their relationship had just ended and that Hae was in a relationship with someone new actually makes him a very good suspect. So I agree with your acknowledgement that Jay did not have motive. But Adnan did.
Regarding Krusty's thoughts on Jay's motive. I think you can theorize about what Jay's motive might have been if he were the murderer but that is not the same thing as identifying a motive from evidence presented. The notion that Jay was cheating on Stephanie appears to have been invented by defense counsel out of whole cloth. The questioning at trial that we got to hear was unconvincing, and grasping at worst.
Regarding the 2nd problem with the Jay theory. Adnan's failure to accuse Jay or present an alternative suspect looms large. No rebuttal on that. If he's innocent he has nothing to lose by calling out Jay. If he's innocent, and as charmingly charismatic back then as his current self comes across on this show, he should have taken the stand and told the jury he was innocent. And if his counsel advised against it he should have insisted on it. (Note, I don't blame him for this, he was 17. But why the hell didn't he take the fucking stand in his own defense?)
The 3rd item about the police is admittedly weak. If you told me the police conspired to shape Jay's testimony, and a corrupt Baltimore justice system put away a person of color because it was the convenient resolution to a case in a city brimming with murder cases to close, I'm not surprised one iota about that. For me it doesn't pass occam's razor though.
I'll add a 4th. Adnan's inability to present an alibi. The show seems to want to give him a pass for not being able to remember in specific detail or makes the excuse "teenagers, am I right?" but Adnan himself seems almost ambivalent about this.
If he is innocent, it is his inability to reconstruct that day and present an alibi that is the reason he is in prison for life. He should (have been at the time) trying harder to piece together his day. He has said to Sarah a couple different times - and he is at his most guilty imo at these times, and you can kind of pick up she feels it too, when she's pressing him - that he just plain doesn't remember anything else. Contrast that to Don, who is much less naive/high than Adnan, who realized the essential basics of murder investigation right away when speaking with the police. Don's first concern was "they are going to think I'm involved" and he immediately started constructing his day.
If on the other hand he's guilty then it's not his "inability" to remember the day but rather his "disinclination" to. He claims not to remember because he can't tell the truth.
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