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Adnan Syed Case

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The criminal justice system is meant to protect the innocent, and punish those who are guilty of a crime. However, no system is perfect and as a result, sometimes the innocent become victims of the system that is meant to protect them. How exactly do these innocent people become victims of the system? Sometimes the person gets framed, and the crime scene is staged to point a finger at them. Sometimes, there is no strong evidence against them, yet the use of circumstantial evidence is used by the crown. That is happened to a 17 year old boy Adnan Syed in Baltimore, Maryland, who was imprisoned for life for the alleged murder of Hae Min Lee. Throughout the serial podcast, Sarah Koenig is able to analyze information which proves Adnan’s innocence. …show more content…

Soon after Adnan Syed, the ex- boyfriend, of Hae was arrested by the police and was sentenced life in prison. The case against Adnan was based on the testimony of Adnan’s friend, Jay. Jay testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae’s body, but Jay’s story does not match up with the cell phone records, and seems to change every time it is told. The prosecution argued that Adnan killed Hae Lee because he felt betrayed, and that he sacrificed his religion for her. Christina Gutierrez, Adnan’s lawyer, provided ineffective assistance to Adnan. She missed Asia’s alibi which would have helped prove Adnan’s innocence. Throughout all of this Adnan has maintained that he had nothing to do with the murder of Hae Min …show more content…

Firstly, Jay was not afraid to lie in order to get out of punishment. In Jay’s second interview, detective McGillivray pointed out the lies Jay had told them so far and asked him why he lied about the location of Hae’s murder. Jay responded by saying that he was worried about camera’s that spotted him. The detective followed up by asking if he did not commit the murder why was he worried. To that Jay responded he was “associated”. Jay was scared that the truth would get him in trouble, so he lied. Secondly, Jay’s testimony had faults and changed every time it was told. For example, the number of days before Adnan told him he was going to kill Hae changed every time. In jay’s first interview he said Adnan told him the same day, in the second interview he was told four to five days in advance. Another example is the location where Adnan killed Hae. In the second interview Jay says in the parking lot of best buy, in Jay’s third interview he says Patapsco Park. There is also a fault in his story. Jay tells the detectives that Adnan called him from a payphone at BestBuy, and told him to come pick him up. According to the serial podcast team, there was no phone booth at that location, and it wasn’t in the blueprints for that BestBuy. These inconsistencies raise reasonable doubts to whether Jay is telling the truth. The fact that Jay lies to the police, and the inconsistencies and faults in

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Jay should be able to remember whether or not he helped bury a dead body with Adnan. The cops can’t rely on Jay to put the case together. These are just two examples of changes, there are many more details that changed when Jay was in interviews with the detectives. All things considered, these are reasons why Jay isn’t a trustworthy

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The case of whether Adnan Syed murdered Hae Min Lee has not been solved for over 2 decades. Regarding the case of Hae Min Lee, Adnan Syed should have been convicted of her murder because he was acting strange the night Hae went missing, he asked Hae for a ride the day she went missing, and he wrote a note saying, "I'm going to kill". The first piece of evidence is that Adnan was acting very strange the night Hae disappeared. Furthermore, while Adnan was at Cathy’s house, he kept asking “how do I get rid of a high” and said that he had to talk to someone really important. Koenig “The Case Against Adnan Syed”.

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Murder Case Against Adnan Syed In 1999, a murder case spiked the enthusiasm of the community of Baltimore, Maryland. Hae Min Lee was the victim of this unforgettable murder which brought together three main suspects: Adnan Syed, Jay Wilds, and Don; however, Don and Hae had only been together thirteen days prior to the murder. This rose suspicion in the case but for some reason was not analyzed as much as it should have been. Don did not have a solid alibi during that day, but he was thrown out the window.

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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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First, Koenig even admits that, “Jay is the biggest mystery of this whole case to me.” (“Inconsistencies”). In other words, the variances in Jay’s stories and unreliable recollections make it extremely difficult for anyone to figure out what happened the day Lee was murdered. Near the end of Episode 4, Koenig begins to reveal the inconsistencies in detail. Koenig uncovers to the audience Jay’s stories have shifted six times throughout the investigation in 1999.

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Some possible motives that may have caused Jay to lie are that he murdered Hae but blamed it on Adnan or that he knew Hae's killer and tried to help cover it up by blaming the ex-boyfriend. One theory could be that Jay murdered Hae because he was jealous of Adnan's good relationship with his girlfriend, Stephanie. Therefore, he intentionally tried to meet with Adnan on the day of the murder so they could be seen together and then be able to frame him by providing the police a well-planned story. Unfortunately, Adnan had no recollection of this day's events to provide to the police. Another theory is that Jay was a good friend with Hae's actual killer and helped him escape the law by blaming Adnan.

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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.

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He has a 50 percent chance of going to a state where he doesn’t remember himself doing any bodily harm to Hae. Jay ultimately helped the cops solve the case with his first hand experience of being with Adnan for the most part of his quest to kill Hae and assist to bury Hae and leaving her car behind. Ultimately Jay may have had some inconsistencies but for the most part he kept his story a lined. I mean what are the chances of getting the right story to fit the cell records for the major events that happens during the crime

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Jay lied in his interviews because he gave different stories to detectives and at the trials. Jay is lying, since his words do not match the cell phone log, Jay gives different witness accounts, and he lies the location of Hae’s body and the car. Adnan’s cell phone call log and the map do not support Jay’s story. Jay’s first interview; On January 13, 1999

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“Sort of from 12:07 until 6:07, that window of time is where Jay’s story doesn’t line up with the cell phone records.” (Koenig, (Episode 5). This is one of the pieces of evidence that proves that Jay’s story is partially wrong, thus making him suspicious. It doesn’t make sense on to why he would continue to lie about where he was when the cell phone pings say that he wasn’t where he said he was. “Will confirmed that yes, track started at four,” (Koenig, (Episode 5).

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Damian Swanson 12/13/16 English 3 Argumentative Essay Im Serial let him out of jail In the United States ten thousand people are wrongly convicted every year. (researchnews.org) This is what happened to a seventeen year old kid named Adnan Syed.

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She states “A year after Adnan was arrested and the case came to trial, Jay walked up to the witness stand. There’s a moment when Adnan muttered something to him” (45). By Adnan calling Jay pathetic he showed that he couldn’t believe Jay would rat him out. This incident shows that Adnan is a liar and is mad at Jay for going to the police, showing that he is guilty. Even after controlling himself through the whole case he snapped when he saw the man that betrayed him.

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Jay told the police one story but then in court, he does a 180 and tells a different story. Jay was trying to make it seem that he was kept in the dark until the day of the murder. This connects jay to the murder because If he knew about it days before that means he helped plan and execute the murder which makes it a premeditated murder. Furthermore, In a different interview, Jay talks about where he picked Adnan up and where he says Hae’s body. Jay calms “ I went to pick him up from off of Edmondson Ave at the strip and he, uh, popped the trunk open”, then Jay recalls a conversation with Adnan were Adnan declares “Um, that bitch is dead come and get me, I’m at best buy.”

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Relationships, lies, murder, conviction. These are all aspects that come into play when talking about the January 13th, 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee. Adnan Syed, Hae’s 17-year-old ex-boyfriend was convicted of her murder in 2000. The problem with this is that the only evidence the state had to convict Adnan was the stories told by others, specifically someone named Jay who was with Adnan for some of the day Hae went missing and had possession of Adnan’s car and cell phone. He claims Adnan made him come pick him up after the murder was committed and assist him in burying Hae’s body.

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These two reasons are all that a person should need to believe that Adnan didn't have enough motive, or time, to kill Hae. Jays testimony sets the timeline and proves there is enough evidence, which is not presented by Adnan’s lawyer, to say Adnan is innocent by a straying story. The time period where Hae could've been killed does not match Adnan’s timeline. Jay, who is a convicted felon, was the only witness and is trusted to give a good story. Cristina Gutierrez, who was Adnan’s lawyer, had medical issues that distracted her from using useful information in his case.

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