Adnan Syed, a kind boy and an intelligent student who has been in jail for 15 years, is innocent purely out of the fact that the defense has little to no creditable evidence supporting Adnan's guilt, and the loss of, not one, but two people in this community is tragic. Adnan Syed was an upstanding student and a kind boy that was put in jail for a crime that he didn’t do. Adnan's friend, Jay, has been the one who has testified against Adnan. Not only has jay testified against Adnan, he helped bury Hae Min Lee's grave.As stated in Serial by Jay, "I was not telling them everything, no" (Serial transcript 8). Jay himself even told the jury that he was not telling the cops everything that he knew. Jay was only telling the cops what he wanted …show more content…
For example, Rabia, Adnan's best friend's sister, said that "He was an honor roll student, volunteer EMT. He was on the football team. He was a star runner on the track team. He was the homecoming king. He led prayers at the mosque"(Serial Transcript 1). His notable willingness to help in the community should be indisputable. And yet, the defense claims that he is not a good person. That because he did the things that teenagers tend to do – drink, smoke, have sex, etc. – that those things determine how good of a person Adnan is. But despite this, the amount of evidence leaning towards Adnan's morality as a person is, frankly, overwhelming. One friend of Adnan's, Ali, recalls a moment when Adnan would stand up for him in Gym when other people would bully Ali (Serial, Transcript 11). Adnan, as is said by Sarah Koeing, "Adnan was the kind of kid who would stand up when your parents came into the room, Ali said. At parties or events, he’d be the first one to ask, 'how can I help you, Aunty? Do you need help setting up those tables, Uncle?'"(Serial Transcript 11). Besides the moments when Adnan was kind to his friends or his family, it is clear as Sarah talks to him throughout the podcast that he truly doesn't know anything about Hae's murder. Sarah also spoke to Deirdre Enright a lawyer in a different, but similar, case, who said "...when you have an innocent