Court Case Of Adnan Masud Syed

Adnan Masud Syed, 19, was convicted of murder that sentenced him in prison for life on June 20, 2000. Mr. Syed was accused of strangling his ex girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, 18, and burying her body in Leakin Park on January 13th, 1999. The body was eventually uncovered and Adnan became the primary suspect after an anonymous call was made to the police a few weeks after the crime to investigate Adnan. The prosecutors had stated that Adnan’s motive of murdering Hae was because he was hurt and outraged when they broke up. To counter, the defense attorney had claimed that Adnan was an average American teen, incapable of murder, and he was an honors student at Woodlawn High School. I believe that Adnan Syed should be granted another trial because his

Asia had written letters to Adnan about believing in his innocence and she remembered seeing him in the library on 13th, during the time of Hae’s murder. She also wrote an affidavit statement for the detectives, in which Adnan had said he gave it to Ms. Guiterrez, along with the other letters. Furthermore, having Asia as an alibi witness for Adnan would have been very crucial information to the judges as she would’ve supported Ms. Guiterrez’s arguments of Adnan’s innocence. Also, the letters would have provided clear and specific evidence of where Adnan was located and when on the day of Hae’s murder, which proves that Adnan couldn’t have murdered Hae if the crime happened during the time period according

Asia’s letters had also said that her boyfriend and his best friend had seen Adnan in the library after school between 2:15-2:40 pm. Ms. Guiterrez had certainly made a huge mistake of not contacting Asia because Asia would have been able to provide her part of the story to prove Adnan’s innocence and also have two other witnesses to support her story to be valid. The defense attorney had made a terrible error with the case because the result of the trial could have ended differently if she would have contacted Asia McClain. Another example of Ms. Guiterrez’s deficient work was because she was sick and greedy for money. Ms. Guiterrez had many records of her demanding money from clients to supposedly use for judge experts in the case, but she kept the money to herself for her personal use or to pay for her medical bill. Ms. Guiterrez had already failed to do precise research for evidence, and on top of that, she was diagnosed with diabetes and had to stay in the hospital. However, the defense attorney still accepted many cases from others, which shows her desire to get money. Ms. Guiterrez shouldn’t have accepted more cases because she couldn’t handle all of it at the time,