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There are around 1,000 people who are wrongly convicted of crimes each year, and Adnan Syed is to be believed to be one of the many who has been wrongly accused of murder. Adnan has been accused of strangling his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, and burying the body. This case was committed about 17 years ago and is still uncovering new evidence about the murder. Sarah Koening, the narrator of the podcast, takes a closer look at the reason why Adnan was accused and looks into the state's case. The Serial Podcast was created as a spin-off of The American Life and to share the story of Adnan Syed. The information given throughout the Serial Podcast implies that Adan Syed was falsely convicted of murdering Hae Min Lee. A reason that helped the state …show more content…

This is the most crucial time window because somewhere between 2:15 and 2:36 Hae Min Lee was killed. A friend of Adnan's stated that she saw and was talking to Adnan after school in the library. “Adnan came in. He sat at the table. And we weren't really close friends or anything like that, but we knew each other… And he told me that him and Hae had broke up.… And he was like, oh, well, she is seeing this other guy, some white dude. But he was pretty chill about it. He was just like, you know, well, if she doesn't want to be with me, then that's fine. I just wish the best for her-- that kind of attitude.”(Koening #1). Asia was also able to state that they were talking for an average of 15 to 20 minutes, but her boyfriend also states that he saw Adnan in the library from 2:15 to 3:00. Since Adnan was at the library that proves that he could not have killed Hae and that Jay is lying again about his story. This evidence changed that whole case and makes Jay seem less reliable to the cops and the state. If Adnan had discovered this valuable information earlier it would have given him the alibi he

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Because of Sarah Koenig's examination and presentation of the evidence surrounding the case of Adnan Syed, today he’s a free man. It's not clear what Sarah Koenig's personal obsession with the Serial podcast was, as she has not publicly stated any specific personal obsession with the podcast or the case it explored. Sarah Koenig, a producer, and journalist was deeply interested in the story of Adnan Syed because she believed that there were many questions and uncertainties surrounding his case. Syed was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in 1999 and sentenced to life in prison.

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He knew exactly where Hae's car was. He claims to have helped bury Haes body. Over the course of Adnans trial, Jay retold his story on how Adnan murder Hae but many inconsistencies were found. The observations of Haes body Jay spoke about don't match autopsy reports. In Sarah Koenig podcast, Serial, she reviews Adnan's case but there are many pieces of evidence that show how the use of Jays information proves he commited the murder.

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Jay's story does line up with one of the pings but not the rest, causing it to be insufficient in helping the case further convict Adnan. Including that evidence, Adans most credible Alibi, Asian Mclain, never testified at Syed's trial. Asain Mclaine wrote an affidavit and claims to have seen and interacted with Adnan Syed the day Hae Min Lee disappeared, between 2:15-3:15 pm. That time frame is the supposed time Hae Min Lee is supposed to be dead. Sarah Koenig explains in Episode 1, "Asia wrote out an affidavit on the spot.

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The fact that he asked her for a ride after school, means it should put him together with Hae at around the time of her alleged death. Furthermore, the police investigation revealed that she had died at around 2:36, because there was a call made at that time where Adnan is said to have told Jay to come pick him up post-murder. Since this pins Adnan to Hae close to the time of her murder, it makes him a likely suspect and gives the police evidence to prove him guilty. Another detail that proves Adnan’s involvement with her murder is Jay’s own involvement with the crime. Jay was the one who confessed to the police that he helped Adnan hide Hae's

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Asia McClain is a vital individual in this case, proving Adnan’s innocence and whereabouts, being a witness for Adnan. She was the key to Adnan’s innocence, unlocking the door, and letting out the false claims and perceptions people had of Adnan, but instead, something fishy happened, something that would question the credibility of Cristina Gutierrez. Asia declares that at the time of the murder, she talked to Adnan for about 10–15 minutes, during the time the state referred to as the time Adnan strangled and killed Hae. Hae was supposedly dead at 2:36, but Adnan was engaging in a conversation with Asia leading up to 2:40. It is impossible for Adnan to kill Hae during this time period, as he had an alibi during the time of the murder, resulting in inefficiencies and lies in Jay’s story.

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The person giving the police all the facts about what Adnan did was Jay Adnan’s friend that helped him kill Hae, but did anyone take the possibility that Jay may have killed Hae by himself and just said that Adnan did it and he was the helper. Jay could have set the hole thing up because when Jay was interviewed by the cops in the 1st interview he said that they

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Did Adnan Syed really kill his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee? Adnan was convicted in this case even through the lack of evidence, his phone records, and his friend Asia’s letter stating where he was at the time. Adnan Syed should not have been convicted of this murder. The lack of evidence on Adnan Syed should not have convicted him. When the detectives interviewed Adnan, they did not find any good thorough evidence.

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An evidence that makes Adnan guilty is when the State “contended that Hae was killed between 2:15 and 2:36 parking lot, about a mile from Woodlawn High School” (Chen 16). Basically, Adnan and Hae were together during that time frame where Adnan strangled her at the Best Buy parking lot. Adnan told Jay to come pick him up afterwards. This aligns perfectly with Jay’s story because he told the detectives that Adnan had killed Hae at the Best Buy parking lot. Thus, making Adnan the prime suspect since he was last seen with Hae.

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The Serial podcast captivated millions of listeners as it dug deep into the case of Adnan Syed, a man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. While Syed's sentence to life in prison may initially seem justified, a closer examination of the evidence presented in the podcast raises significant doubts about his guilt. This essay aims to challenge Adnan Syed's sentence by presenting material from three episodes of Serial, revealing inconsistencies in the prosecution's case, unreliable witness testimonies, and the lack of conclusive evidence tying Syed to the crime. Throughout the podcast, several inconsistencies and discrepancies emerge, undermining the reliability of the prosecution's case against Adnan Syed.

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Anya Schultz, the author of a review titled Serial: A Captivating New Podcast, works to show how multiple narratives and stories can be manipulated and sometimes vastly misinterpreted. Serial, an intriguing, enthralling podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, tells the story of Hae Min Lee, a young, beautiful, high school senior who was murdered in 1999. Lee 's case, as Koenig and Schultz point out, has a few missing pieces of information that were never accounted for. For example, how did the jury come to the conclusion that Lee 's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was truly guilty? Why did Syed 's lawyer forget to mention the letter from his acquaintance Asia McClain that could have polished his alibi?

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Lastly, a testimony from Asia McClain claims that she spoke to Adnan at the library 2:15 on January 13th. There might be a few reasons to hint to his guilt, but the evidence of his innocence outshines that greatly. First

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In a transcript by PBS it states “This is where Asia McClain, the classmate of Adnan and Hae, said that she saw him here. And she wrote two letters after his arrest saying, ‘I know I saw you here. I can't believe that you did this because I saw you during that day.’” The exclusion of Asia’s claims in the trial was also brought up during Serial S1 E1. This shows that Gutierrez was untrustworthy and if she were not Adnan's lawyer the case might have ended with a different

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The defendant had once challenged Sarah Koenig, the creator and narrator of the podcast “Serial” to test the timeline of our case claiming that timeline can’t possibly fit the events mentioned in the given time frame. So, Ms.Koenig along with the podcast producer Dana Chivvis test the idea by setting up a mock scenario as the state had claimed. After going through the test, the two had concluded that the time frame provided made it possible for Mr.Syed to kill Ms.Lee(Ep.5). This evidence is definitely reliable since the narrator and producer are creating the podcast, and have been investigating both sides of the murder. The scenario confirms that the defendant could have killed Ms.Lee in the amount of time our case claims.

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This proves that Adnan was the one who killed her. Jay and Adnan both committed a serious crime. Adnan killed Hae with the help from

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These people say that since Hae broke up with Adnan and that was enough reason to want her dead. However, Adnan was a smart kid who would realize that killing someone for breaking up with you is not a valid reason. Adnan was not hurt enough to kill Hae; he was devastated when she died and he didn't know about it when he was told. Also, they say that Adnan had enough time to kill Hae. What this opinion fails to take into account is that Asia saw Adnan at the library around the same time of the murder and she was never used in court as an alibi (Koenig, “The Best Defense is a Good Defense”).

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