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The admission of Jay being provided a defense attorney by the prosecution is what caught my ear the most. I've had a hard time buying his story, his shaping of the events of the day of Hae's murder, since the beginning of the podcast, and that revelation just sealed it for me. I don't trust anything he testified to in count.
Hell, I say "his story" like he actually had a single one you can point to. It all changed drastically over time. We have what seems to be a direct witness to the crime who not only appears to have been directed by either (or both) the detectives and/or the prosecution to provide whatever "facts" they think they needed, who later - in addition to a defense attorney who no doubt coached him - was basically given an "attaboy" by the same prosecution at his own sentencing for accessory after the fact (this was back in episode 8 IIRC), who never served a day in prison for his part in the crime. Every bit of this sounds like a frame to me, with Jay given all kinds of benefits in exchange for providing whatever the prosecution wanted.
That, in addition to all the anti-Muslim bias (and remember that this occured before 911) just made me sick. So far we've had jurors who (in past episodes) have admitted to holding his lack of testimony against Adnan despite being told by the judge not to, and now we have jurors talking about how they thought he did it basically because 'those' Muslims (in other countries) don't treat women like real people. Which has been and continues to be true in the larger sense, in certain parts of the world, but how do you say that's the case when you're talking about a 17 year old kid in Maryland? That boggles the mind.
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