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emory on its best day is reconstructive by nature. However, the occurrence of a significant event can help aid in the encoding process of a memory from short to long term. The ability to recall a memory is influenced not only by personal ties and connections but, information received after an event has occurred.The lack of credible and tangible evidence in the trial of Adnan Syed leads me to believe he is innocent of the crimes in which he is convicted for.
Adnan’s former classmate, Jay Chaudhry's story is the centerpiece upon which the prosecution builds its case. During his interrogation Jay claims that Adnan informed him beforehand that he was going to murder his ex-girlfriend and asked him to assist in burying Hae Min Lee’s body. An eye witness testimony such as this is vital in a case without any …show more content…
This means the murder occurred between the time school let out at 2:15 to 2:36 pm. In the podcast, Serial, Sarah Koenig and an acquaintance attempted to retrace the events that occurred on the day of the murder based on cell phone records. They found that by rushing through traffic the fastest they could get to Best Buy was in 18 mins which, only leaves 3 mins for the actual murder to occur. In that time Adnan would have to strangle Hae, pick up her dead body and stuff it in the trunk, and then place a call to Jay from a telephone pole. There are several issues with this theory for example how is it possible to get a dead body into the trunk of a car without being noticed in the middle of the day or, why was there no evidence of a struggle when Hae was known to be an athletic girl who was in shape. This idea that Adnan killed her in 21 mins seems farfetched. By constructing this time frame the prosecution is implying that the murder was premeditated because it would take meticulous planning to succeed in executing a murder under such time

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