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Guilty Case Against Adnan Syed

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“He cried and couldn’t believe it”. Hae Min Lee, a high school student, disappeared one day after school in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1999. Her body was found in a city park a hundred feet from the edge of the roadway a month later. She had been strangled, her autopsy showed. Adnan Syed, her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, was arrested for the crime and given a life term. Because the judge dropped the case and ruled that he was innocent, he only served about 23 years. Like teens everywhere, Hae and Adnan were in a toxic relationship ship, breaking up and then getting back together the following day. They attended Woodlawn High School together. There are many people who argue that he is innocent and wrongfully convicted. Adnan Syed did not kill Hae min lee because there is not enough evidence linking him to the murder of Hae Min Lee and because of Jay’s inconsistencies. …show more content…

The prosecution case against Adnan Syed was mainly based on the testimony of Jay wilds, who said he helped bury Hae Min Lee's body. Jay's testimony was supported by the cell phone records that placed Adnan on the site on the Day Hae Min Lee disappeared. According to the prosecution, the evidence sayed that Adnan had a motive to Kill Hae, because he was jealous and possessive of her. However, there are inconsistinces in Jay’s testimony, which has changed multiple times over the years. Some people also claimed that He was pressured into providing false testimony by the police. Second, the cell phone evidence used to place Adnan at the site of Hae’s disappearance has been questioned because the technology back then in 1999 was not very accurate. Finally, there is no physical evidence linking Adnan to the

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Jay’s story shifts from statement to statement, and from trial to trial. It’s not the calm recollection of an involved party, but the remorseless web of lies from a guilty man. For example, at first Jay says he didn’t help Adnan bury Hae, then he says that he did. In his first statement Jay tells police that Adnan only

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Aiden Livingston English III Mrs. Duncan 11 Mar 2024 The Case of Adnan Syed People are wrongly convicted due to poor police work every single day. “975 innocent people are being locked up every year” (Home). In 1999, Haemin Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School, was brutally strangled in her own car. The person accused of the act was Adnan Syed, a 17-year-old who also attended Woodlawn High. One of Adnan’s close friends, Rabia Chaudry, sent Sarah Koenig a letter trying to convince Sarah of Adnan’s innocence.

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Adnan’s first trial was declared a mistrial. He then began his second trial where he was found guilty and placed in the Maryland Correctional Institution. He is serving a life sentence plus 30 years for the murder of Hae Min Lee. Rabia Chaudry is one of the authors of the Undisclosed podcast. Chaudry and Adnan knew each other prior to this

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On January 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee went missing; she was expected to pick up her little cousin from kindergarten. Then on February 9, 1999, Hae’s was body was discovered in Leakin Park in Baltimore City, Maryland; her cause of death as manual strangulation. Police arrested her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed on February 28. On February 25 of 2000, Syed was convicted of first degree murder and then in June 6, he was sentenced to life plus 30 years. From what was presented at trial, I do not believe Adnan Syed killed Hae Min Lee.

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Your Honor, members of the jury, my name is Gracie Hernandez, representing the defendant in this case. My client, Adnan Masud Syed, was an honor roll student at Woodlawn high school that everybody described to be someone who was going to do something big and is now being accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. According to the State, on January 13, 1999, in Baltimore County, Maryland, during 2:15 to 2:36 pm, Hae Min Lee was murdered by manual strangulation in the Best Buy parking lot on Security Boulevard in Windsor Mill, Maryland, allegedly by her ex-boyfriend Adnan. Later both Adnan and Jay Wilds buried Ms. Lee’s body at Leakin park during the hours 6 to 8 pm. Today I will be proving Adnan is an innocent minor and does not deserve

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Adnan Syed vs. Justice system Adnan Syed is a famous figure who is widely known for being the subject of the first serial season of the popular podcast ‘’Serial “. He was born in Baltimore and was serving a life sentence until his release in 2022 for a murder he was convicted for in 2000.During his trial for the murder of high school classmate Hae Min Lee, his then attorney represented him poorly,contributing multiple factors leading to his imprisonment. Since then, advocates for Syed believe he was wrongly accused of the crime. On January 13, 1999 The body of Hae min lee was found in Leakin Park by a worker there. The detectives’ Main suspect was the ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed, Based on the story of only one key witness, Jay, Adnan was dragged out of his home and put in handcuffs.

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This Reveals Syed Wrong actions as it connects with the timeline of the calls given by the AT&T records and thus proving Adnan Syed being responsible because the whole story is adding up and connecting to wilds story. Likewise, the testimonies of witnesses proves Syed to be guilty as charged, as it adds up to create a story that proves him as a criminal. In the crime scene 4 witnesses are interviewed or info is obtained from them. According to wilds, Pusateri and vinson, “Wilds contacted Pusateri and asked her to pick him up at the Westview Mall… then he told her that Syed killed Lee that afternoon and placed her in the trunk of her car… he returned to Vinson’s house for the rest of the evening... Vinson testified that Syed and Wilds stopped by her apartment around 6 pm” and According to McClain, McClain had written Syed a letter… reminding him that she … had seen him at the Woodlawn Public Library… before 3 p.m. on January 13.

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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).

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After every interview with the authorities, Jay’s story would change in either small details or vastly different. In episode 4, Jay originally said that he found the body at Best Buy parking lot, but now it was a strip on Edmondson Avenue. His story changed in order to minimize his involvement because his relationship with Adnan isn’t worth going to jail for. The other piece of evidence was Adnan’s phone records which were used a confirmation to Jay’s witness statement. Most of the calls add up to what he said, but the phone was in the possession of Jay while Adnan killed Hae.

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In this testimony, Jay incriminates Adnan by saying he was shown Hae’s body and made to help Adnan bury her. Cell phone records and other testimonies corroborated Jay’s version. However, during the multiple retellings of his testimony, Jay’s story had several inconsistencies. During the trial and his interviews, Jay’s testimonies have wildly different versions of where he was shown the body, whether Adnan planned the murder ahead of time, where the murder took place, as well as many others details. Jay was also told by the detectives that, if he failed to incriminate Adnan, he would be the primary suspect in the case.

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Adnan and the victim, Hae Min Lee, dated on and off throughout high school, and when they broke up “for good”, they remained good friends and hung out together. The prosecution said that Adnan was “heartbroken” and “obsessive” over Hae, but that is not the case. After talking with his classmates and friends, it was concluded that Adnan continued his

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In Baltimore, Maryland 1999, a young lady Hae min lee goes missing. Adnan Syed is a prime suspect in the murder case. He is an 18-year-old Highschool senior at Woodlawn Highschool. Adnan is then convicted of the murder of his girlfriend, Hae. Adnan is innocent.

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She states “A year after Adnan was arrested and the case came to trial, Jay walked up to the witness stand. There’s a moment when Adnan muttered something to him” (45). By Adnan calling Jay pathetic he showed that he couldn’t believe Jay would rat him out. This incident shows that Adnan is a liar and is mad at Jay for going to the police, showing that he is guilty. Even after controlling himself through the whole case he snapped when he saw the man that betrayed him.

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