Adnan Judy Research Paper

Adnan Syed was arrested on February 25, 2000. At just 17 years old he was charged with first degree murder, false imprisonment, kidnapping and robbery. Although, I have reason to believe that he is innocent and was wrongly convicted. On January 13, 1999, a girl by the name Hae Min Lee was reported missing. She was a senior at Woodlawn High School. Adnan was her ex-boyfriend, they had broken up a week prior to when she went missing. Adnan was the first suspect, seeing as the ex-boyfriend is always a cliche. Her body would be found later on February 9, 1999, although they didn't have concrete evidence on Adnan other than a witness with an inconsistent story named Jay, he was still arrested. Adnan is innocent, let me bring up three major points.

It’s a big day in Baltimore. Half the jury is black, seven out of twelve. Jay probably comes off as a nice young man and this white lady is yelling at him. Sometimes, unwittingly or not, Jay’s testimony is almost poetic. He says he told Jenn Pusateri to be honest with the detectives because “the lies that we were telling to try to protect each other were clouding the truth.” When he’s asked why he didn’t warn Hae that Adnan wanted to kill her, he says it was because he didn’t think Adnan was serious. “I took it as a grain of sand instead of concrete.” And when he’s asked why the image of Hae in the trunk of a car stuck with him, he says “I’ve never seen anyone dead before, and the first thing I thought was how fragile Stephanie was.” This quote suggests that Jay could have just been very strategic about his words and the way he presented himself in court. Also, because he displayed this behavior, he won over the majority of the court. Adnan wasn’t one of the only suspects and to be fair, comparing a 17-year-old to Ronald Lee Moore makes a huge difference. At the time, the mere thought that Ronald could have committed the crime wasn’t even released to the