Adnan Syed Case Study

Adnan Syed is a 36 year old who had been convicted of first degree murder at the age of 17 on February 28, 1999. Adnan’s friend Jay Wilds testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae Min Lee’s body back in 1999, but Adnan Syed mentions he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. Adnan was convicted with evidence of his cell phone call logs, Asia’s letters to him, and Jay’s description of the route they took during the day of Hae’s death. Adnan Syed is granted a new trial. Not only has there been mistrials, delay, and not enough evidence but also there has been a conviction towards Adnan resulting with doubt after more than 1 decade later. Jay testified he helped Adnan bury Hae’s body in 1999. “Jays first interview with detectives. He tells them Adnan

Adnan had challenged Sarah Koenig by”[telling] her to test the state's timeline of the murder by driving from Woodlawn High School to best buy in 21 minutes. It can’t be done he said. So Sarah and Dana take up the challenge, and raise him one: They try to recreate the entire route that Jay said him and Adnan took on January 13th, 1999”(Route Talk, Sarah Koenig). Adnan was convicted with a route that Jay mapped out to the police men involved in his case. Sarah Koenig was challenged due to the delay at school and traffic than any other time of day because it was when his peers and unknown worker in the area were dismissed. Sarah then gained knowledge from the timeline… that the route cannot all fit in 21 minutes and if it were to happen it left Adnan 3 minutes to strangle her and put her in the trunk in front of many people at best. “[A map was shown with] the key locations in the story and the cell towers that were triggered by Adnan’s cell phone on January 13, 1999”( podcast, Sarah Koenig). Adnan’s cell phone he had bought about a week before Hae’s death, was used as evidence with the cell tower map of where and when his cell phone was used for calls and messages. Not to mention, Adnan didn’t have his cell phone throughout the whole day of January 13, 1999, he had let Jay borrow it either because he needed Jay to pick him up from Best Buy after Hae’s death, or because Jay didn’t have a cell