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Adnan Syed: Innocent Or Guilty

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When someone is innocent, they aren’t blamed for a crime, and when someone is guilty, they are blamed. So, would Adnan Syed be innocent or guilty, for being accused of murdering Hae Min Lee? The podcast Serial is narrated by Sarah Koenig, which is about a man named Adnan Syed who was put in jail for “killing” a woman named Hae Mine Lee. Adnan’s ex-friend, Jay, accused and turned in Adnan into the police, stating that Adnan killed Hae. Because of this, Adnan was convicted of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life. After investigating the case, it is clear that Adnan is innocent because he had a good relationship with Hae after the breakup, he was a good student, and there was no trace of Adnan that showed he killed Hae. To begin with, …show more content…

Adnan’s ex-friend, Jay, told the police and detectives that he witness seeing Adnan opening the trunk to Hae’s car, with her dead body inside. Jay states, “He opens the trunk. And all I see Hae’s lips are all blue, and she’s pretzeled up in the back of the trunk. And she’s dead,” (Ep. 1, p. 9). This means that Jay saw Hae dead in the trunk of her own car, with Adnan by his side. Furthermore, this shows that Jay was the only one to witness seeing Hae dead, which means that Jay didn’t have an alibi to back him up with his accusation. When Sarah Koenig looks further into the investigation, she realizes an important detail. Sarah Koenig narrates that, “As for physical evidence, there was none-- nothing. Apart from some fingerprints in Hae’s car, which Adnan has been in many times, there was nothing linking him to the crime-- no DNA, no fibers, no hairs, no matching soils from the bottom of his boots,” (Ep. 1, p. 6). Here, Sarah is making the point that there was no proof that Adnan was the one who actually killed Hae. Nothing from the hairs on his body to the dirt on his books physically proved that he was even at the scene of the murder. Thus, Adnan is innocent because there was no trace of himself, on Hae or her car, that showed that he killed …show more content…

Since Adnan had a lot of free time before track practice started, he usually went to the library to check his email, however, on the day Hae was killed, he talked to Asia McClain. Sarah Koenig states that, “This hour and change is a crucial window. This is the time when the states says Hae was killed. School got out at 2:15. People remember seeing her after her last class heading to her car. According to Jay's story and the cellphone records, she was dead by 2:36 PM. So sometime in those 21 minutes, between 2:15 and 2:36, she was strangled,” (Ep. 1, p. 14). This shows that Adnan had enough time to kill Hae and then go back to the school to have witnesses. Moreover, it usually takes about five minutes to check and email, and about ten minutes to have a small conversation with Asia McClain. Because of this, he had less than ten minutes to kill Hae, and then head back to school. However, Asia remembers talking to Adnan, while she was waiting for her boyfriend to come pick her up. In one of Asia’s many letters, she mentions a crucial detail. The letter states, "’Asia plus boyfriend saw him in library 2:15 to 3:15,’" (Ep. 1, p. 19). This shows that Adnan had two alibis, Asia, and her boyfriend, who both happened to see Adnan at the library during the time when Hae was strangled. Furthermore, Asia remembered seeing Adnan at the library that day, because there was a

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