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Re:Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder... by hbosch on Thursday June 30, 2016 @05:31PM (#12011926)
Isn't it pretty well accepted that, psychologically, your memories are severely distorted and sometimes entirely lost in times of extreme emotional distress?
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Re:Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder... by djb_hackernews on Thursday June 30, 2016 @05:34PM (#12011948)
I can buy that. But his defense wasn't "my memories are distorted" it was "How could I remember?, it was soo long ago"

Plus you'd have to believe some pretty wild conspiracies for any other explanation to be plausible.

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Re:Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder... by grandalf on Thursday June 30, 2016 @05:46PM (#12012041)
> any other explanation

He may be convicted again. I didn't think they established motive all that strongly, and something was odd about the guy who claimed to have helped bury the body.

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