Serial

About this Episode

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