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Adnan Syed: The Murder Of Hae Min Lee

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Looking at the judicial justice system today, it is easy to see that they screwed up in the case of Hae Min Lee and with the sentencing of Adnan Syed to first-degree murder for the murder of Hae Min Lee. Adnan Syed was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee on January 13 1999 after school. With the help of some unstable statements from Jay, and a few other people. He was charged with first-degree murder in February 2000 for the murder of Hae Min Lee. Although the prosecution/ defense believes that Adnan did kill Hae Min Lee on that fateful day. The truth is that Adnan Syed did not kill her because the state's case against Adnan had many holes in it. The police did not consider didn’t consider other suspects. And Adnan had an alibi for that day. All this evidence proves that Adnan …show more content…

Adnan’s friend Asia sent him a letter while he was in prison saying that she saw him on the 13th of January during the 21 Minutes that were stated to have been the time that he had killed Hae Min Lee. She states that she saw him in the library near the school. She states that she was talking to Adnan and her boyfriend came up to them and started arguing with her thinking that Adnan was hitting on her. After Adnan leaves she states that the time was after 21 minutes that the state put the time of the murder at. This means that Adnan could not have killed Hae in the time that was stated that he killed her. The reason Adnan’s lawyer screwed up was that even after Adnan showed her the letter, she didn’t use it during any of the trials even though it gave him an alibi for the time the state, state’s the murder happened. Think about this if Adnan's lawyer had brought this up in a trial it would have given him an alibi and maybe he would not have been convicted of this crime and have saved 23 years of his life. This means that if she had used this information Adnan could have gone free and lived his life normally without this

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