Robbing Half Of Someone's Life Research Paper

Robbing Half of Someone’s Life: Adnan’s Story According to NBCNews, "Of the people wrongly convicted for homicides more than two-thirds were minorities, including half who were African American (Hause and Melber)." It's unbelievable that innocent people spend many years in a place where they don't deserve to be. Now there might be another name added to this list of wrongly convicted, Adnan Syed. In 1999, he was accused of the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, and was found guilty due to one testimony. I believe Adnan is innocent because the evidence used to determine the verdict isn't justly sufficient, minorities were used as scapegoats, and he wasn’t emotional distressed post break up. The 6th Amendment declares, “Innocent until

This case isn’t any different from the rest. American Pakistani boy is believed to have murdered his ex-girlfriend. Being in this relationship meant he was being a “bad Muslim”, but his religious beliefs had nothing to do with the case. The State pointed out forbidden things he did, such as doing drugs and sex before marriage (“The Alibi”). Adnan was just a typical teenager with strict immigrant parents (“The Alibi”). These affiliations and accusations were only used as an emotional trigger to the jurors. Baltimore has a history of unnecessary searches, use of nonlethal force, and killings of unarmed black men (Makarechi). According to Jay, he didn’t notify the police earlier about Hae because he had lost their trust (“Inconsistencies”). Before her murder, Hae was dating a Caucasian boy, Don, whom wasn’t further questioned because he had an alibi. It seems strange how most suspects questioned were minorities, yet when the white boy comes along the police just easily let him

The State believed that he was risking everything for a girl who at the end broke his heart. He lied to his parents about his social life because he was going against his religion. Honestly, who hasn’t lied to their parents about their social lives? His relationship with Hae was an “on again off again” relationship, so he would’ve cared about the break up at first, but later move on (“The Break Up”). He loved her enough for a high school love, but wasn’t obsessed after the break up. His friends said that his response to the break up was a typical guy thing, he just moved on to the next girl. After they broke up, he continued dating multiple girls, smoking, and not really being a religious guy. Not one witness stated beforehand that he went insane after the break up, so the relationship wasn’t the