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
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Adnan was a high school senior at Woodland high school in Baltimore Maryland when he gruesomely strangled his ex girlfriend Hae Min Lee to death. He claims to have not committed this unthinkable crime but has no proof supporting this. Adnan’s story states January 13th was just another normal day for him and he has no specific recollection of it other than he would have gone to track practice at 3:30. Even if someone did believe that Adnan was telling the truth, and went to track practice that day, which there is no evidence of, it still would not have given him an alibi for the critical 21 minutes in which Lee was murdered. Lee was murdered sometime between 2:15 and 2:36 and Adnan has no alibi for that time. Not only that but the only person who claims to have seen him in that time frame “called one of the prosecutors in… the case…and undermined her own statement” proving his actual location was unknown at the time. It is unusual that Adnan would not remember anything about this crucial day because he received a phone call from the police. He says he does “remember that phone call and [he does] remember being high at the time” but continues to deny remembering anything else because the day was “normal”, but, receiving a phone call from the police does not seem very normal and most people would remember the events leading up to it. Another reason why Adnan is legally at fault is because he …show more content…
His heroic testimony against his good friend is the main reason the state was able to correctly convict Adnan. In his sworn statement, Jay affirms Adnan killed Hae and that he saw her dead body. He tells investigators, “all [he could] see [was that] Hae’s lips [were] all blue, and she [was] pretzeled up in the back of the trunk. And she [was] dead.” This descriptive account of Jay’s first interaction with the deceased corps is very clear evidence that he was a witness to this disgusting act. In addition, Jay was able to take the police “to where the car was” which was huge to the states case. Jay’s ability to lead to authorities directly to the car in question is vital to the investigation and proves that he was being truthful in his testimony. Another factor that proves Jay’s story is true is that there is another witness who heard the same story from a friend. The witness, a girl named Laura, was talking with a friend when he informed he earlier that day he was with his friend and he saw Hae’s dead body in the back of a trunk. When asked who her friend was with, she replied “I think his name was Adnan” thus being a secondary proving Jay’s story is both, correct and accurate. The last point that proves Jay is telling the truth and his testimony against Adnan is honest is that he was willing to speak with Koenig. Most people, lying or not, would not willingly speak to a private investigator who randomly showed up
Adnan was a high school senior at Woodland high school in Baltimore Maryland when he gruesomely strangled his ex girlfriend Hae Min Lee to death. He claims to have not committed this unthinkable crime but has no proof supporting this. Adnan’s story states January 13th was just another normal day for him and he has no specific recollection of it other than he would have gone to track practice at 3:30. Even if someone did believe that Adnan was telling the truth, and went to track practice that day, which there is no evidence of, it still would not have given him an alibi for the critical 21 minutes in which Lee was murdered. Lee was murdered sometime between 2:15 and 2:36 and Adnan has no alibi for that time. Not only that but the only person who claims to have seen him in that time frame “called one of the prosecutors in… the case…and undermined her own statement” proving his actual location was unknown at the time. It is unusual that Adnan would not remember anything about this crucial day because he received a phone call from the police. He says he does “remember that phone call and [he does] remember being high at the time” but continues to deny remembering anything else because the day was “normal”, but, receiving a phone call from the police does not seem very normal and most people would remember the events leading up to it. Another reason why Adnan is legally at fault is because he …show more content…
His heroic testimony against his good friend is the main reason the state was able to correctly convict Adnan. In his sworn statement, Jay affirms Adnan killed Hae and that he saw her dead body. He tells investigators, “all [he could] see [was that] Hae’s lips [were] all blue, and she [was] pretzeled up in the back of the trunk. And she [was] dead.” This descriptive account of Jay’s first interaction with the deceased corps is very clear evidence that he was a witness to this disgusting act. In addition, Jay was able to take the police “to where the car was” which was huge to the states case. Jay’s ability to lead to authorities directly to the car in question is vital to the investigation and proves that he was being truthful in his testimony. Another factor that proves Jay’s story is true is that there is another witness who heard the same story from a friend. The witness, a girl named Laura, was talking with a friend when he informed he earlier that day he was with his friend and he saw Hae’s dead body in the back of a trunk. When asked who her friend was with, she replied “I think his name was Adnan” thus being a secondary proving Jay’s story is both, correct and accurate. The last point that proves Jay is telling the truth and his testimony against Adnan is honest is that he was willing to speak with Koenig. Most people, lying or not, would not willingly speak to a private investigator who randomly showed up