Adnan Kill Hae Analysis

Improved Essays
Hey Everyone!

Let me start off by saying thanks for letting me speak on your radio show, I am the biggest fan of Serial.

I’d like to begin by saying Adnan shouldn’t be in prison… I mean, other than a missed call, and an idea for a motive, there really isn’t hard evidence to prove that Adnan committed the crime.

Let’s start with the ‘The Nisha Call’… one of the most important pieces of evidence. It not only proves that Adnan was with his phone around 3:32pm, it means that Adnan’s story could be a lie. Adnan states, during his interview, that he was without his phone and in the library, he lent his car to Jay with his phone still inside. According to Asia McClain, who really weren’t friends with either Adnan or Jay, had a conversation in the
…show more content…
Hae and Adnan’s relationship was meant to be kept a secret from family and friends (friends meaning anyone who would relay the news to his parents). Once the break up took place, the prosecutor brought up the idea that Adnan felt betrayed, all because of Adnan’s religion?

Adnan’s mother excused the court and jury of discrimination, because they are Muslim. During the trial on March 31, 1999, the ‘evidence’ or ‘argument’ made against Adnan was pulled from 2 other cases, nothing similar about them other than the religion, Muslim. They said, because of Adnan’s religion, he automatically had resources, people in the community to help him flee after he was released from custody. Their proof came from a trail on March 24, 1999. The prosecutor explained how Adnan “has an uncle living in Pakistan…”, and how he “drained blood from a cow in church, … he was pumped”. How is that helpful? How does that effect Adnan? This is stereotypical, plus Adnan was born in America. Yes he followed the Muslim rules, but by keeping his relationship from his parents, he doesn’t seem that

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Select a crime and then find a suitable case that interests you. Newspapers are a great place to start researching for a case - Mohammed Haddara faced Melbourne Magistrates’ Court in the committal hearing (a hearing in the local court before the charge is heard in the district court or Supreme Court) over drug possession and vehicle thefts . Identify the court the case would be heard in. Outline the jurisdiction of this court – criminal, civil, original and appellate – This court has been heard in the Melbourne Magistrates court as a committal hearing. The Magistrates court of Victoria is the lowest court in the Victorian system and is a court of summary jurisdiction .…

    • 1154 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Summary – The 40-Year Search for Beverly’s Killer, By: Wendy Gillis, 2014 After 40 years of a cold case in Beverly Smith’s murder back in the 1970’s, many police officers try to piece to the puzzle together over time (Gillis, 2014). They have made 3 arrests, over 40 years, one man was let go early on in the detention and the other two arrests was a neighbor at the time, Alan Smith (Gillis, 2014). In 2007 Inspector Dave Kimmerly took Beverly’s case and they started from scratch (Gillis, 2014). He had his first lead on Alan Smith from an interview with his ex-wife – which was eventually retracted and his charges dropped (Gillis, 2014).…

    • 940 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Why should Adnan Syed be considered innocent? In this investigation, a man named Adnan Syed was accused of murdering his girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. His old best friend Jay, said he witness the dead body of Hae after Adnan killed her. Adnan should be considered innocent because, during the murder of Hae, Adnan was seen at the library by Asia Mclean, wasn’t that upset about the breakup, and was a smart student who wouldn’t kill anyone after they broke up. First, Adnan is innocent because Asia Mclean and her boyfriend saw him at the library.…

    • 959 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Hae Min Lee Case Study

    • 1136 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Adnan Syed is guilty of the murder of Hae Min Lee because he is not able to provide a solid alibi,and the cell records place him in leakin park during the time of the murder, however the others claim there is a lack of DNA evidence to pin on Mr. Syed it is still clear that he is guilty of murder. Adnan Syed is guilty of the murder of…

    • 1136 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Tajammul Bhatti’s case for Instance, serves as a good example of haste and prejudice. The sixty-eight-year old physician was detained on June 20, 2002 because of terrorism related charges. The FBI agents searched his apartment and presumed that a “New York Times article on Jose Padilla”, a phone number of his friend who works in Pakistan’s nuclear commission, an antenna wire and some magazines on planes and electronics are sufficient evidences to jail him for almost one week. After he testified in front of a Grand Jury, he was cleared of all charges…

    • 94 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In this essay we will discuss the topic about why Adnan Syed is not Guilty and should be considered a re-trial. Adnan Syed should be given another trial because of his innocence was not proven correctly and the case was just unfair. The evidence that backs this statement and claim is the Call Logs, Jay's testimony/interviews and Best Buy/Timeline/Covering. The first Piece of evidence to introduce is the call logs.…

    • 520 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Adnan is innocent because Jay’s testimonies of Hae’s murder are inconsistent. On February 1999, Hae Min Lee’s body was found. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was convicted of her murder. The prosecution’s main evidence against Adnan was the testimony of Jay Wilds. Jay’s testimonies have many inconsistencies that discredit his reliability on who killed Hae and what actually happened that day.…

    • 1284 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Adnan Syed - Guilty Ever since “The Judiciary Act of 1789”, the United States courts system has been accurately convincing some of the most ruthless and dangerous criminals the world has seen. It has been able to accurately distinguish the difference between innocent and guilty and kept lying criminals from escaping unscathed. The case of Adnan Syed is no different, even though Serial a podcast series narrated by Sarah Koenig may suggest differently. It is evident that Adnan is culpable of killing his ex girlfriend Hae Min Lee because his claim of innocence just does not make sense, and the fact he has a reasonable motive makes him very suspicious; that combined with a witness named Jay, who was willing to testify against his good friend…

    • 1232 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Adnan Syed

    • 393 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Many people in Baltimore Maryland knew Adnan Syed as a respectable, personable young Pakistani Muslim man who was very involved with his community mosque and also a big part of his school's track team. What nobody saw coming from this young scholar was an unspeakable act of murder. After his friend/girlfriend broke his heart and moved on with another man, his jealousy turned into anger and he took things into his own hands. Adnan committed the murder of Hae Min Lee because his time-line doesn't match up, the inconsistencies with his cell phone and he had reasonable motive to kill being that she was his ex-girlfriend.…

    • 393 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A man was arrested under the accuse of plotting a suicide bomb attack in London. Mohammed Rehman, 25, of Radstock Road, Reading, is on trial at the Old Bailey Court in a joint proceeding with his wife, Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, of Hutton Close, Earley, Wokingham. The man had been posting tweets on the account ‘Silent Bomber’—that has now been shut down— in which he discussed preparing a martyrdom operation, the court heard.…

    • 431 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Why Adnan Syed Is Innocent

    • 1124 Words
    • 5 Pages

    I firmly believe that Adnan Syed is innocent for the following reasons. The first reason Adnan Syed must be innocent is because he did not have a motive to kill Hae. Some may say it was jealousy since Hae had dated another guy after they broke-up, named Don. Although Adnan showed some despair, Asia, a witness that saw Adnan at the library around…

    • 1124 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Serial Film Analysis

    • 577 Words
    • 3 Pages

    While listening to Serial, I enjoy the fact that it lets you observe an event from both sides, without being biased. I like how it flips back and forth between guilty and innocent, keeping you on your toes. Just like everything, there are no black or white, just shades of gray. Sarah Koenig constantly gives you points that support each side with each new episode and it keeps me wanting to listen to the next episode. Hearing this mystery has awakened my desire to read mysteries such as the Agatha Christie series; but my preference lie in the criminal shows, such as N.C.I.S., Graceland, and all documentaries.…

    • 577 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I think this case was poor executed, and they just arrested Adnan to have a person in custody for the crime. The first thing that swayed my mind to think of Adnan as an innocent person was the fact there was no physical evidence. How can you convict a person if you have absolutely no physical evidence what so ever? Sarah Koenig accepted the help from Deirdre Enright and her two team members. She gave Deirdre the case file, and Deirdre had two team members look the…

    • 835 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Bad Evidence Case Study

    • 853 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Serial: Final Essay Adnan Syed is not guilty due to the lack of evidence provided to prove that Syed is linked to the murder of eighteen-year-old Hae Min Lee. The evidence provided to prove Syed’s guilty goes as follows, Syed does not remember clearly where he was at the time of the murder. Jay Wilds, a casual acquaintance of Adnan Syed, reported Syed to the authorities after he helped bury Hae Min Lee and ended up not being punished for being an accomplice. Syed’s alleged motive for the murder is not clear.…

    • 853 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Also, a lot of people around his community calls him the “golden child”. This proves that Adnan wasn’t the one that killed Hae because if Adnan was a good person, he wouldn’t have killed someone that…

    • 1496 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays