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Originally Posted by Pushead2
Yeah - I just don't get how any juror could see Jay's stories shifting and say "he's credible"
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I think the answer is that they didn't. See his story shifting that is. At least I'm assuming they didn't have access to transcripts of his interviews and/or testimony from the first trial (like we do). He probably came across like a kid from the block, maybe even a kid from the block being attacked by the defense attorney when she did point out his inconsistencies. We have a veritable map of lies laid out in front of us now. They just had whatever they were fed by the prosecution. By a kid sitting on the stand sounding polite and respectable and smart. It was well-performed theater.
Maybe the ethnic thing was a part of it too, a black kid being more relatable to the jurors (whether they were black themselves or not) than a muslim kid, not to mention that the muslim kid didn't even speak up for himself.
If they really did have multiple people on the jury (or influential members of the jury) with the kind of views the juror on the podcast expressed about muslim culture, then Adnan may have been screwed from the get-go with that particular group.