Hae Min Lee Persuasive Essay

Every year there are hundreds if not thousands of people who are put in jail even though they are innocent. On January 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee of Woodlawn high school was found dead in Linkin Park. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was the one who took the blame. I think Adnan Syed deserves an appeal because in his trails there were inconsistent testimonies, cell phone call logs that had blurry information and the fact that Adnan did not have a violent or aggressive temperament. According to Episode 4 of Serial, the testimonies that were given by Jay Wilds show he is lying about what really happened. At the beginning, he stated he had nothing to do with helping Adnan bury Hae’s body. Later on, he said he knew where Hae’s car was and took the police to the car. In each of Jay’s interviews, he tells the police a different time frame in which Adnan told Jay he was going to kill Hae. The reason behind all these lies is “Jay told the police and the jury, again and again, that he was willing to lie in order to avoid criminal punishment (Susan).” Even though Jay is not a credible …show more content…
The cell phone call log was one of the big pieces used against Adnan, but according to the Serial Podcast Jay had Adnan’s phone that day.in the call logs there were incoming calls that were used to find Adnan's phone even though "Outgoing calls only are reliable for location status. Any incoming calls will not be considered reliable information for the location. (Staff)" The information of the incoming calls is unreliable plus “ the tower pings gave the wrong location for 16 of the 22 calls for which the prosecution’s evidence showed the location of the phone at the time of the call(The Failure of)” This means that this cell tower ping is only about 27% accurate. Now, this may be a case where the cell tower was right but it's uncertain, this proves that the accuracy of the cell phone tower evidence is only correct about 27% of the