Innocence of Adnan Syed Essay

understand the context. I believe this is what happened with the Cathy interview. The day of Lee’s murder, Cathy remembers Wilds and Syed showing up at her apartment stoned. Cathy was a friend of Wilds’ but did not know Syed. She claimed that Syed’s behavior was odd whether she knew him or not (Ep6, 18:50). At the time of this interview, over 15 years had passed and Syed had been tried, convicted and sentenced. By knowing this information, it could be argued that Cathy’s recollection may have…

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.…

memory in eyewitness testimony. The suspect of the crime is Adnan Syed, a seventeen-year-old high school student who is also the victim’s ex-boyfriend. There were many secondary pieces of evidence such as the cell phone records, the story between Adnan and the victim, Hae Min Lee, and so on that have proved him to be the true culprit. Additionally, the evidence that most of the jurors rely on, which is also the evidence that pushes Adnan into jail is…

In Serial’s Season 1 Episode 9: “To Be Suspected” posted in the fall of 2014, journalist Sarah Koenig provides significant new evidence for the murder of Hae Min Lee. Koenig is beginning to argue that the 2:36 p.m. call from Adnan Syed to Jay saying that Hae was dead is nearly impossible. She has multiple other people that went to Woodlawn High School to support her argument by stating that they recall speaking with Hae right after school or spotted her around 3 p.m. at school. Koenig speculates…

extract memories. In court cases, however, extracting memories becomes problematic and challenging. In the podcast Serial, that was based on a murder that happened several years ago, inconsistencies hinder the strive for truth. While Jay claims that Adnan killed a girl called Hae, problems with memory cause discrepancies in the detectives’ findings. Within this, how does the study of memory and trauma-related amnesia affect the analysis of Adnan’s case in Serial? Also, can different problems in…