“The surprise release of Adnan Syed, the subject of the hit true crime podcast Serial, after 22 years in prison. Syed had been sentenced to life in prison for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee; on Monday, a Baltimore judge ruled that the state violated its legal obligation to share exculpatory evidence with Syed’s defense and overturned his conviction. I know people are celebrating this, and I understand why, but I’m going to be honest with you, I find it weird that America confuses fixing a mistake with a happy ending. You know what I mean? Like ‘good news, we got out of Afghanistan’ – well, why were you there in the first place? ‘Good news, we got emergency water to Jackson, Mississippi’ – why do you need emergency water? What does it say about America that it takes a podcast to help free a man from prison? Because what I think it says is that either America needs to reform its justice system, or podcasts need to become part of the justice system.” —Trevor Noah
“It wasn’t Serial, or subsequent investigations into his case by the Undisclosed podcast or the 2019 documentary The Case Against Adnan Syed, that changed Syed’s fate. His case had come up for review to a prosecutor who used to be a public defender. That prosecutor dug deeper into the case file then she had to and found issues with the conviction, then asked the judge to vacate it. The prosecutor didn’t have to do any of that. She could’ve just said, ‘ah yeah, maybe it wasn’t a completely fair trial, but tough shit.’ But she said: ‘no, if we’re going to put somebody in prison, it has to be without any doubt.’ And that shows you the difference between a justice system that wants justice versus a system that just wants to put people in prison.” —Trevor Noah
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001-ways-to-make-america-great-and.html
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and Orwell’s 1984.”
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