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Adnan Innocent Or Guilty Research Paper

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Adnan, Innocent or Guilty? How do you feel about an ex-boyfriend killing his ex-girlfriend on a random day? Well this story supposedly happened to Adnan Syed who was convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee, and in my opinion, I conclude Adnan is innocent based on lots of evidence from the podcast “Serial.” In the year around 1999 Adnan Syed was a young teenage boy at Woodlawn High School, and he used to date Hae Min Lee but then they broke up. In that same year on January 13, Adnan was accused of murdering Hae Min Lee. I don’t think he did it based on many understandings. Asia claims that on that day, she saw Adnan in the library. No one saw Adnan actually enter the car and no one can figure out where and when exactly Hae was killed, and no …show more content…

Sarah states, “ If I’m Adnan and I need to be seen for track, I’m freaking out right now, that I need to get back for track to have an alibi.” “But, it is possible. Or at least not impossible, which was what Adnan was saying in that first letter.” These quotes explain Adnan is innocent because if he had killed Hae before Jay said they went to the park to smoke weed, why would Adnan want to go far from school if he knew he had a track practice to go to? The route Jay was explaining could have been possible, but everything had to have been the right time and right movements to prove it. This is important because if Adnan was very late to track practice, then his teammates would have noticed and remembered that day, so why is Jay telling a story to make Adnan look even worse? Therefore, if Adnan’s case was filled with many lies, who could have been telling the actual truth about Adnan? What seems to be true is everything that proves he’s innocent because it seems to make more sense in the

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In fact, Sarah Koenig and Dana Chivvis tried to recreate the timeline of what supposedly happened after school on January 13th. They went from Woodlawn high school, where school gets out at 2:15pm, to Best Buy, where the murder was said to take place. Koenig and Chivvis accounted for the time it would’ve taken to get out of the parking lot and drive during weekday traffic. They pulled that part off in the allotted time slot, but just barely. This shows that it wasn’t impossible to Adnan to have killed Hae by 2:36pm, but it would’ve had to have been done perfectly.

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However, because that payphone is non-existent, Adnan never called Jay when he was done with the killing, from the best buy ‘payphone.’ Another point to prove Adnan's innocence is that the “witness” Jay was not a trusted source of information, nor was he reliable to tell the truth. Jay’s story was the main story used by the cops and detectives to first convict Adnan. However, Jay's story changes between the first time he told the detective and the first time he was in the trial. For example, these are quotes from parts of the serial podcast showing the inconsistency, “You say at Edmondson Avenue off of a strip?

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The Case of Adnan Syed She was killed over a breakup. On March 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee was murdered and buried in a shallow grave at Linkin Park. She was a popular kid at Woodlawn High School, who played lacrosse and had lots of friends.

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On January 13, 1999, in Baltimore, Maryland, Woodlawn High School senior Hae Min Lee disappeared. Her body was later found on February 9, 1999 in Leakin Park. The primary suspect of Hae Lee’s murder by strangulation was her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed. He has been convicted of first degree murder and has served 17 years. Through the testimonies of the many witnesses and other evidence collected, it is evident that Adnan Syed is guilty of Hae Min Lee’s murder, however, this is case has grown very controversial, especially after Serial’s release, and many believe the justice system failed Adnan; the members of our society trust our justice system, it is not always perfect, it has flaws, but it is still expected to carry out its function, to protect the innocent, and every time

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It was the state's case against Adnan. ”This proves that adnan is innocent because this shows that the court used a unreliable source of evidence. This is when Jay told the police that adnan had murdered hae. ”The story Jay told police had problems, because it kept changing from telling to telling. ”This proves that adnan is innocent because This proves that even the police had not believed jay

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If you were charged for a murder you did not commit, what would you do? Adnan Syed was sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. But there are a few small details that make significant complications within the case. Though many of these details cannot be fully proved nor entirely refuted, they could have been the reason for Adnan's rightful freedom. Today, he is incarcerated in a Baltimore prison awaiting appeal.

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Additionally, Jay's testimony is largely uncorroborated, meaning that there is no hard evidence to prove his claims. Jay's story about Adnan murdering was so widely believed because of the way it was told. Jay provided detailed and vivid descriptions of the events as well as convincing details, which made his story more believable. The fact that he was a friend of Adnan and had knowledge of the events made it even more convincing. Furthermore, the prosecution used Jay's testimony as the main evidence to prove Adnan's

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