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The Court Case Of Serial By Sarah Koenig

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Serial is a podcast created by Sarah Koenig. Serial is based on the court case of a Adnan Syed, this podcast discusses important information on whether or not Adnan is guilty or innocent of committing murder. The case against Adnan is very murky. People believe that Adnan should not have been tried for the tiny amount of evidence they had against him, which was a friends story, and cell phone records.
Podcast 10 starts off with Sarah talking to the jury that was there for Adnan’s second court case. Sarah decided to interview the jury to see if they were prejudiced against Adnan's race. Adnan's mother and friends in the community believe that prejudice views are what corrupted the jury into giving Adnan a guilty plea. Sarah also believed that …show more content…

Sarah keeps getting mixed reviews from the community, some saying Adnan killed Hae, some saying they could never see Adnan hurting anyone yet alone murder someone. Some new information about Adnan arises throughout all of this, some people state that they have seen Adnan stealing money from his mosque. One man says on tape that he remembers seeing Adnan take money every Friday. This man says Adnan must have taken thousands of dollars from his mosque; when in reality he only took $20-$40 a handful of time. Adnan plays this situation as a boys will be boys kind of moment, where others believe that is could be the start of something much …show more content…

The court did not have enough conclusive evidence to pin the murder on Adnan. I also believe other steps should have been taken, if not before the trial right afterwards, like testing the DNA they found on Hae and in her car. I also believe Adnan's lawyer should have talked to Asia and that the police should have checked more into some of Jay's statements. There are some coincidences that might seem like the murderer could have been Jay, Adnan or friends of theirs instead of a random person. I just personally believe, that if this were to happen nowadays Adnan would not have received the plea he did, more information would have to be brought into the case.
After listening to the podcasts, I found that four theories we talked about in class could be involved with Adnan. The first one being the Differential Association Theory by Sutherland. The Differential Association Theory states that if you have a higher number of bad friends than good, there is a higher chance of that person becoming a criminal. From the sounds of Adnan's life, one could tell that he surrounds himself with bad people and you do not hear about many good

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How many judicial cases are overturned because of bad evidence? Producer Sarah Koenig tells us about the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old high school student from Baltimore county, Maryland. Her body was found six weeks later in a shallow grave in a local park. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed was convicted of her murder the following year on what many consider thin evidence and is now serving a life sentence in prison. Adnan Syed should not have been convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee.

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Many people who were brought to trial in defense of Syed were character witnesses; witnesses who would usually say something along the lines of, “The Adnan I knew wouldn’t do such a thing.” Aisha Pittman, Hae Min Lee’s best friend, talked with Koenig for the podcast. Pittman stated that although he ‘generally annoyed’ her, she was not ‘freaked out’ by his behavior during Syed and Lee’s relationship. Throughout the podcast, Koenig paints a picture of Adnan Syed and who he is. She uses character witnesses, including herself, to indicate that Syed is a good person.

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In other words, sometimes the jurors don’t make the best of choices, although they are the only fair way to decide whether someone is guilty or not. That was definitely the case with Adnan because nobody had reported seeing him and Hae together after school on the day she disappeared. In fact, one of Hae’s friends, Summer, remembered talking to her after school in the gym area there: the wrestlers had been walking around, Summer was preparing the equipment they had to load onto the bus and Hae came in to say, “I’m not getting on the bus to the match, but I’ll see you there” (Serial, 2013). Summer says this wasn’t a quick conversation either. If no one saw Adnan and Hae together after school and Summer says she was with her for some time, then Adnan couldn’t have gotten a ride from her and couldn't have killed

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