Serial Season 3 Focuses on 'Shocking,' Ordinary Cases in Cleveland's Court System

Previous seasons have been downloaded more than 340 million times

For Season 3, Serial wanted to tackle the very ordinary, everyday ongoings of a criminal court system.

That mission took them to Cleveland, where producers were able to get enough access to record everywhere, including courtrooms, judges’ chambers and prosecutors’ offices.

After tackling a lesser known court case of Adnan Syed’s murder conviction in Season 1, and the high-profile case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Season 2, Season 3 will profile the usual everyday proceedings within a year in Cleveland’s criminal court system.

“Every case Emmanuel and I followed, there came a point where we thought: No, this can’t be how it works,” host Sarah Koenig said in a statement.

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