Aliyah Price
Written Composition
Mrs.Fenstad
Love and Murder Nobel prize winner, Knut Hamsun once said, “love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.” In the real life case presented in the podcast series, Serial, officials claim that Adnan Syed’s motive was simply love, a dangerous, violent love. With that being said, it is well knew that love can sometimes drive people to do the unthinkable; murder. In Adnan’s case officers say that the love he had for Hae influenced his actions, and he decided to take her life. Throughout the podcast, listeners were informed about the case as a whole as well as other information on characters and professionals who were questioned by reporter, Sarah Koenig. Koenig leaves it up to the listeners
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Some of those issues include people being at different places at different points, the time window, the whole cell phone tower situation, and so on. Let’s look at the time frame, so basically your looking at 2:15pm to about 2:36pm: 21 minutes which is when officers think Hae was killed. The podcast producer and reporter do the exact route said to be taken from the high school to Best Buy, and it take them 22 minutes and 2 seconds. So yes, it's possible but not to likely. If Adnan was capable of this he would have had to get everything perfect, assuming there was no complications with traffic or anything like that, he would have had to kill her in approximately a 1 minute (some argue it takes 5) that's amazing assuming 17 year old Adnan has never killed before, let alone with his bare hands. So if the time of death and the time of the phone calls are by chance right, it's still a super narrow window for all of this to happen.
Another reason that leads me to believe that Adnan is innocent is the said to be locations and timing of when and where the murder was committed.First of all, think about the fact that this murder was committed in the afternoon around 3:00 o’clock, broad daylight. Don’t you think someone would see ? Theories are that the murder either took place at a pool hall, maybe around the high school or even a Best Buy parking lot, where Jay claims he saw Hae’s body in the trunk of a car. If that's the case, all locations pan out to be public places, someone, anyone could've saw it
The criminal justice system is meant to protect the innocent, and punish those who are guilty of a crime. However, no system is perfect, and as a result, sometimes the innocent become victims of the system that was meant to protect them. How exactly do these innocent people become victims of the system? Sometimes the person gets framed, and the crime scene is staged to point a finger at them. Sometimes, there is no strong physical evidence against them, yet circumstantial evidence is used by the crown to put them away. This happened to a 17 year old boy named Adnan Syed in Baltimore, Maryland, who was imprisoned for life, for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Lee. Throughout the Serial podcast, Sarah Koenig is able to critically analyze information which proves Adnan’s innocence. Firstly, Asia’s letters gave Adnan an alibi for the time of the murder. Secondly, Adnan’s innocence can be demonstrated through the lack of any strong evidence and the prosecution’s use of circumstantial evidence which can be disproved. Thirdly, Jay’s constantly changing testimony is not credible evidence of Adnan’s guilt, making him innocent.
One piece of evidence that supports this theory is the fact that Jay had Adnan’s phone. During the timeframe of the murder a number of calls were made from Adnan’s phone to different people. All these calls made were only to people that Jay knew himself. Jay was in possession of Adnan’s phone before, during and after the 21 minutes in which Hae was murdered. These calls were all in the area of the murder clearly shown by the cell phone tower map. Phone records show calls to and from Jen, one of Jays best friends from high school, who Adnan had only met once or twice whilst with Jay. It doesn’t add up that Adnan would call Jen more than once, before and after the murder if he didn’t know her.
Most people don’t think adnan is guilty since there isn’t enough evidence . When you start to look at all the evidence and all the stories that were told it all truly comes back onto adnan. Adnan is guilty for the crime he did because he can’t recall where he was on current day, every speech he has given it falls back on him, and most of all adnan is in every evidence that anyone gives.
Adnan Syed, a senior in Woodlawn High School, was convicted and charged with the first-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999. Not only is Adnan’s alibi inconclusive, but he also fails to recall any specific details or occurrences of January 13th-the date Hae Min Lee disappeared. His acquaintance, Jay Wilds, has served as the State’s key witness. Despite having already served seventeen years in prison, Adnan did not murder Hae Min Lee. His innocence simply has not been captured due to missing perspectives, inconsistencies in Jay’s story, and biases in the law enforcement.
Adnan is probably innocent because the only solid evidence is Jay’s inconsistent testimony. The first evidence is the police audio when the first audio played jay mentions that he Adnan were at on the mall and the other audio mentions that they were at a different mall. And the second evidence is the court tapes when Adnan lawyer is questioning jay and changes his answers at the moment when jay was at the stage. And last evidence is Jay’s lack of memory because hard to believe that he forgot the day/night that he saw a dead body for the first time (Hae Min Lee’ Body)
What would you do if you a master manipulator going to jail.the Story of serial is narrated by Sarah Koening is about trying to get a guilty man out of prison. Adnan syed is a monster, a master manipulator, and a murder in jail. Jay wilds the witness that brought the murder to jail. This story is interesting because it’s story of murder getting free. I believe that adnan syed is guilty of the murder of hae min lee because he had a good motive for it and his hand print was in hae’s car.
Adnan Syed was a golden boy to people; he was smart and loved by everyone. He never thought he’d be convicted of his ex-girlfriend’s murder, neither did anyone else. In fact, when he first received a call from the cops regarding Hae’s disappearance he brushed it off, more scared at that fact that he was high on marijuana and talking to a police officer. He thought Hae had just ran off to California, just like everyone else. However, when they found her body in a park notorious for being a body dump his whole world turned upside down. Soon after this a friend of his, Jay, confessed to the police into helping Adnan with Hae’s murder which then put Adnan behind bars. However, was Jay’s testimony true? Unfortunately Adnan’s case has many flaws and lies to it, and the true answer still remains; is Adnan Syed actually innocent or guilty all along?
My verdict is Adnan Syed is innocent of the murder of Hae Min Lee. I reached this verdict after analyzing the evidence and determining that there was a reasonable doubt that he committed the murder. The following pieces of evidence showed he was not linked to the crime: The first piece of evidence talks about the lack of physical proof.
A lot of people wonder if Adnan Syed is guilty or innocent, today as a legal assistant I'm going to tell you one important reason why he is innocent. Adnan is not guilty because there is another potential suspect like Jay. Jay's story that "proves" Adnan's guilt, has changed every interview and testimony. Jay had intimate knowledge of the crime he knew things, like if he knew every single thing that Adnan was thinking about which makes everything looked suspicious. Also Jay's stories don't quite match Adnan's cell records.
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.
Adnan Syed is innocent. I believe this because one, everyone says things that don’t make sense or don’t add up. Two, how could Adnan do this if he cared for Hae as much as he says he does? Three, every time it seems like the blame should fall on Adnan, people doubt that he’s not the one to blame. First, Adnan Syed is innocent in my eyes because all of his witnesses say different things and things that don’t add up. For example, almost all of the witnesses said a lot of “he was probably there”, and “from what I can recall”. Next, Adnan cares and wants the best for Hae, so why would he kill her? Adnan stated that he just wanted her to be happy that’s all he cared about, does that sound like a murder to you? Lastly, there’s too much doubt on
I believe that Adnan Syed is innocent for various reasons, for instance, every time Jay would meet with officials, his story would change, and the inconsistences with the cell phone records, for instance, during that time, the two calls placed Adnan Syed to Leakin Park, however, the two calls were incoming and it made it difficult to decide the location. I think that Jay Wilds needs to be observed more and the investigations needs to be re-examined because there are a lot of conflict and contradictions that are misleading. Serial contradicts before and with the law because the justice system didn’t grant the same equal rights to Adnan as they did with Jay. For example, I believe the officials involved in the case didn’t allow Adnan to give
One of the reason why I believe Adnan Syed is innocent is because he sounds Like a good kid that would never even think about hurting anyone, I mean can you imagine a 17 year old killing Someone cause I don't. Adnan was “like the perfect guy” as some would say. “He was an honor roll student, volunteer EMT.
I believe the young man did the murder. Because he was the only person home he was the only person that did not hear the screech and he was walking around very funny and passing back and forth
Another example is that of Homicide, which is generally accepted as long as it is executed from outside your own clan, exerting no moral obligation. For this reason, murder, stealing and the seduction of women is an acceptable course of action, as long as it is held appropriate within the tribal organization. Thus, as a human being, they have a variable value and in this case, they fail to separate the individual from the social context. The consequences of adultery and stealing are prone to the specifics of those involved, e.g. adultery is only deemed wrong if it is within a clan and subclan. But again this is not an intrinsic wrong doing, as even if it goes unnoticed, no moral blame or feeling of guilt is set upon those involved. This exposes