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Adnan Syed Case Summary

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Adnan Syed, is he really the cold-blooded killer that planned the murder of young Ms. Hae Min Lee? The Honour and the prosecution has given us a picture of Mr. Syed as someone that he is not. Adnan, a young likeable intelligent student at the time is a victim of pure profiling. He is young Muslim Pakistani male and coincidently the ex-boyfriend of the late young Min Lee. He was a victim of injustice, the case that has been brought is not strong enough to convict him of the murder and sentenced him to life in jail. The prosecution has brought a very thin case with what seems "the start of a story" but is not reliable to convict Mr. Syed of murder. The case has little forensic or any evidence and the whole case is based on an inconsistent …show more content…

On the contrary to what the court believes Mr. Jay is the manipulative and deceiving person which debunks his reliability to the court. Additionally, the witness' story of what occurred on January 13th, 1999 is very inconsistent. The use of Adnan's cell phone log that have been used to corroborate Mr. Jay do not match up "from 12:07 until 6:07, that window of time is where Jay’s story doesn’t line up with the cell phone records. And the timeline he’s giving is not lining up with the times of the cell phone calls". Therefore the belief that the call at 2:36 is not in reality when Adnan called Jay to tell him to "come pick me up from Best Buy". In addition, a witness states that "It’s impossible. It’s impossible. I mean, like, I mean it’s just impossible. It’s not, there’s no way that she was at Best Buy at 2:36". Due to the fact that Hae Min"was with [the] [witness] during that time, or at the school during that time" as they had a wrestling match to attend to as they were both managers of the team. Furthermore, the only evidence that brings forth that Adnan and Jay were in the same car around the murder which additionally corroborates the witness is the Nisha call, the

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