Adnan's Testimony

The courts got it all wrong; they jailed the wrong man! In 1999, a student at Woodlawn High School was accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend. His name was Adnan Syed; he was accused, tried, and convicted of murdering a fellow student. The body of Hae Min Lee, an eighteen-year-old senior, was found in Leakin Park. When the state wrongly convicted him for Hae Min Lee’s murder, the prosecutors used testimonies from suspects that were inconsistent and they attempted to vilify him to make him out to look like a bad kid.
As I said before, the state 's argument against Adnan was based on inconsistent testimonies. This unreliable testimony occurred mainly with Jay who was Adnan 's weed dealer. Adnan was known to smoke weed with him often. When Adnan …show more content…
They took testimonies from family friends and his friends who said he was a stellar student. They stated that he was always leading prayers in the mosque as well as having a job as an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician); on the other hand, they also made him out as living the life of a “criminal.” They said that there were several instances where they were able to tell he was a killer such as his ignoring his parents and getting a girlfriend despite his mother’s wishes, smoking weed, and Adnan apparently being obsessive over Hae. The prosecutors made Adnan sound as if he was extremely obsessive over Hae by stating how often he would go over to check up on Hae regardless of what she was doing. In Adnan’s culture and the region of Pakistan where his parents are from there is no such thing as dating; people are either single or married. This made him seem as if he would be heartbroken after she broke up with him. Since Adnan would go to check up on Hae, her best friend Aisha said on Serial that she believed he was kind of obsessive with her. When the prosecutors were doing their best to convict Adnan, they stated that he had killed Hae because he was so guilt ridden that he went against his parents and his religion. He wasn’t going to let a girl dishonor him like that. In Hae’s diary, she mentions that Adnan had called Hae the devil in the past. When the prosecutor …show more content…
This is a debauched reason to convict him, though. For Adnan, the day Hae disappeared was just a regular day. Since nothing out of the ordinary occurred, Adnan had dismissed the day and virtually morphed it with every other day. Think back 6 weeks and remember a random day within the week. The majority of people would not be able to remember and would most likely have a mix up of history. Some people could say that my argument against Jay is the same argument that the prosecutor had against Adnan. However, Adnan’s story remained relatively the same except for a few discrepancies, Jay’s story had multiple discrepancies and was prone to changing back and forth. This is also why I don’t think Jay should have been chosen to give a truthful testimonial. Many people may also say that Adnan was guilty because of the phone records. This can be proved wrong because today in court cases telephone records and which cell towers are pinged for a phone call are used more often to describe where a person was not rather than to prove where a person was. This is due to the fact that cell phone towers don’t always work in the sense that they cover a certain radius of ground or else there would be cell phone towers all over the place. The prosecutors stated that Adnan wasn’t at the library checking his email during the period of time in which he would have killed Hae because no one