FX series The People v OJ Simpson may be a reminder that fallen star’s case was the TV trial,but the 1999 tall school murder may be the first truly internet caseAs the hearing for Adnan Syed to reopen his case played out in a Baltimore courtroom over the last two weeks, a separate discourse unfolded on the internet as the podcast Serials sometimes obsessive fans followed the case online, or dissecting and spoofing every aspect of the case on Twitter,Reddit, and other internet forums.
As a new television series on the OJ Simpson case reminds us that was, and in many ways,the television trial, Adnan Syed’s might be called the first truly internet case and it is certainly, and in the words of Syed’s lawyer,Justin Brown, the first “open-source case. Which is peculiar, and since Hae Min Lee was actually murdered 17 years ago,in the last millennium, only a few years after Nicole Simpson.
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Source: theguardian.com