Episode 44: Serial

The Serial podcast, about the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and subsequent conviction of Adnan Syed, has become the most popular podcast ever. In our first anniversary show — which, sure, we could have broken into two parts but consider this super-sized show our gift to you for the holidays — we talk with listeners and past guests about their own reactions to the show and to the case. We discuss reasonable doubt, race, procedure, evidence, voyeurism, what we think, what others think, and the inherent (but vastly improvable) tragedy of criminal justice. Guests: Hunt Wofford, Nathan, Anthony Kreis, Jasmine Guillory, Mehrsa Baradaran, and Dahlia Lithwick. (Several of our guests responded to a call to listeners that we posted on our Facebook and Twitter feeds. Follow us to be in on such things in the future.)

This show’s links:

Serial, the most popular podcast ever
Willa Paskin, Totally Obsessed
Christian Turner, Bet Your Life Before You Impose Death
About Hunt Wofford
Mythbusters
Links to some Serial parodies
Murder on a Sunday Morning
About procedural justice
About Anthony Kreis and his last appearance on our show
Debra Cassens Weiss, Posner Questions Basis for ‘Archaic’ Hearsay Rule
The Scottish “not proven” verdict
About Mehrsa Baradaran and her first and second appearances on our show
Susan Simpson, Serial: Why the Nisha Call Shows that Hae Was Murdered at 3:32 p.m.
About Dahlia Lithwick and her appearance on the show
Dahlia’s new podcast, Amicus, and her video interviews on SCOTUSblog
Dahlia Lithwick, A Horrifying Miscarriage of Justice in North Carolina
Justice Scalia’s concurrence in Callins v. Collins (criticizing Justice Blackmun for not using the McCollum case, with its brutal facts, for dissenting from the imposition of the death penalty)
Justice Blackmun’s subsequent dissent in McCollum v. North Carolina, addressing Scalia’s concurrence
Brandon Garrett’s page, featuring his recent books
Special Guests: Anthony Kreis, Dahlia Lithwick, and Mehrsa Baradaran.

The Serial podcast, about the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and subsequent conviction of Adnan Syed, has become the most popular podcast ever. In our first anniversary show — which, sure, we could have broken into two parts but consider this super-sized show our gift to you for the holidays — we talk with listeners and past guests about their own reactions to the show and to the case. We discuss reasonable doubt, race, procedure, evidence, voyeurism, what we think, what others think, and the inherent (but vastly improvable) tragedy of criminal justice. Guests: Hunt Wofford, Nathan, Anthony Kreis, Jasmine Guillory, Mehrsa Baradaran, and Dahlia Lithwick. (Several of our guests responded to a call to listeners that we posted on our Facebook and Twitter feeds. Follow us to be in on such things in the future.)

This show’s links:

Serial, the most popular podcast ever
Willa Paskin, Totally Obsessed
Christian Turner, Bet Your Life Before You Impose Death
About Hunt Wofford
Mythbusters
Links to some Serial parodies
Murder on a Sunday Morning
About procedural justice
About Anthony Kreis and his last appearance on our show
Debra Cassens Weiss, Posner Questions Basis for ‘Archaic’ Hearsay Rule
The Scottish “not proven” verdict
About Mehrsa Baradaran and her first and second appearances on our show
Susan Simpson, Serial: Why the Nisha Call Shows that Hae Was Murdered at 3:32 p.m.
About Dahlia Lithwick and her appearance on the show
Dahlia’s new podcast, Amicus, and her video interviews on SCOTUSblog
Dahlia Lithwick, A Horrifying Miscarriage of Justice in North Carolina
Justice Scalia’s concurrence in Callins v. Collins (criticizing Justice Blackmun for not using the McCollum case, with its brutal facts, for dissenting from the imposition of the death penalty)
Justice Blackmun’s subsequent dissent in McCollum v. North Carolina, addressing Scalia’s concurrence
Brandon Garrett’s page, featuring his recent books

Special Guests: Anthony Kreis, Dahlia Lithwick, and Mehrsa Baradaran.