Adnan’s Trial: The Dark Side Do you think that your decisions are affected by subconsciously without you knowing? Our lives revolve around stereotypes and external influences. Some influences which we may not know where they come from, leaving us with a mystery to solve, just like a crime. This is similarly portrayed in the podcast, Serial starring Sarah Koenig. In this podcast, she story tells about the murder that occurred in January, 1999 in Baltimore County, Maryland in the United States of America. The victim, Hae Min Lee, a highschool teenager of Woodlawn High School was strangled to death. The police and prosecutors reviewed the evidence collected and concluded that Hae’s ex boyfriend, Adnan Syed committed the heinous act. Adnan was …show more content…
Throughout the entire course of the case, this problem was seen through the prosecutor’s use of cultural stereotypes, using biased and uncredited witnesses and poorly conducted court and investigation processes. During the trial, the prosecutors used many religious stereotypes to create a case argument. These points made were not validated, creating preconceptions, showing their views towards Adnan and his religion. Moreover, when the witnesses were interviewed by the police or prosecutor, they used the witnesses words which were not validated nor supported to paint a picture on the suspect, Adnan. Also, the improper use of the court and investigation proved to be untrustworthy. From how the process worked, it showed that they dt provide a thorough job. They made a pre bias assumption of only focussing on Adnan. The entire case illustrated unfair actions which was the main reason for putting Adnan away unjustly. All in all, the system can not be perfect. There will always be flaws in the cases and that should hope to evolve and be fixed in the future. Is it really possible to eliminate prejudice in people, is not a natural