Imagine being locked away for life, knowing you did not do the crime. Constantly shouting out, “I didn’t do it, I didn’t do it!.” In the end, all that is left is an empty dark cell and constantly being called from people you do not know who are trying to figure out your case. Well, that happened to Adnan Syed in Baltimore, Maryland 1999. In the case of the murder of Hae Min Lee, there are multiple people being called into question about who committed the murder. The person who is at the top of the list is Adnan Syed, Hae’s ex-boyfriend. Throughout the
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Although the other side might argue that because Adnan Syed bought a phone a few days before the murder happened, that is not enough evidence to make him guilty, because there is also the state’s lack of evidence and the inconsistency in the testimony of the one witness.
Due to the fact that the state has found slim evidence to prove that Adnan syed is guilty, they had no reason to charge him, making him innocent. During this investigation, Sarah Koenig, an interviewer with Serial Podcast, sorted through thousands of documents, listened to trial testimony and police interrogations, and talked to everyone she could find who remembered what happened between Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee. She met another woman, Deirdre Enright, who was a professor for Law at the University of Virginia. She and her team take on a case that police have thrown away and go into all the …show more content…
I have a struggle with Jay. He’s the biggest mystery of this whole case for me. The cops interview him at least four times that I know about. Two of those are on tape. And Jay also tells this story at trial – not once, but twice cause the first proceeding ended in a mistrial. So, at least, say, six times he's told what happened. And each time, some details shift” (Koenig episode 4). She mentions that one of the trials had ended in a mistrial because Jay could not get his story straight in court for the jury to hear. It was presumed that Jay had these inconsistencies to fool the cops and make them not count on him as a witness, equaling no witnesses to help Adnan not be prosecuted. One journalist for the Rolling Stones also writes
Although the other side might argue that because Adnan Syed bought a phone a few days before the murder happened, that is not enough evidence to make him guilty, because there is also the state’s lack of evidence and the inconsistency in the testimony of the one witness.
Due to the fact that the state has found slim evidence to prove that Adnan syed is guilty, they had no reason to charge him, making him innocent. During this investigation, Sarah Koenig, an interviewer with Serial Podcast, sorted through thousands of documents, listened to trial testimony and police interrogations, and talked to everyone she could find who remembered what happened between Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee. She met another woman, Deirdre Enright, who was a professor for Law at the University of Virginia. She and her team take on a case that police have thrown away and go into all the …show more content…
I have a struggle with Jay. He’s the biggest mystery of this whole case for me. The cops interview him at least four times that I know about. Two of those are on tape. And Jay also tells this story at trial – not once, but twice cause the first proceeding ended in a mistrial. So, at least, say, six times he's told what happened. And each time, some details shift” (Koenig episode 4). She mentions that one of the trials had ended in a mistrial because Jay could not get his story straight in court for the jury to hear. It was presumed that Jay had these inconsistencies to fool the cops and make them not count on him as a witness, equaling no witnesses to help Adnan not be prosecuted. One journalist for the Rolling Stones also writes