He was this beautifully unconventional guy," a former acquaintance says. "He always seemed very honest with who he was. One of Jay's former "best friends", Chris, alleges that Jay once tried to stab him, because he had never been stabbed and Jay thought he should "know what it's like". Yet his friends and former acquaintances describe him as a rather more challenging character. In cross-examination by Adnan's defence lawyer, Maria Christina Gutierrez, Jay comes across as polite, attentive and credible. He was "like the Rodman of our, like, social world", one former Woodlawn High School student said, referring to the unconventional US basketballer Dennis Rodman, renowned for his tattoos, piercings and his friendship with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Jay, a seeming blank slate in the series up until now, was presented as a complex character. When the case went to trial, Jay (who has not been named in full on Serial) testified at length against Adnan, claiming that he had unwillingly become an accessory to the murder when his friend called cajoled him into helping to bury his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee's body. Having looked in detail at the prosecution's case two weeks ago in episode 6, The Case Against Adnan, Serial's host, Sarah Koenig, turned her attention this week to the most baffling aspect of the case to date: the testimony of Adnan Syed's friend Jay. The latest episode of the Serial podcast phenomenon, which is attracting a rapidly expanding audience as it dissects a 15-year-old murder case in weekly instalments, addressed new analysis from a private investigator and further scrutiny of the prosecution's "star witness" Jay.
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