Adnan Syed

Imagine being accused of a murder you didn't commit. You have to go through long questionings and long trials. Usually, they realize it isn't you but 4.1% of people accused of murder are wrongly accused(Hughes). Seventeen years old, Adnan Syed was accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. This case was brought to attention by Sarah Koenig when she created a podcast about it. After Sarah's segments, she did every week where she investigated Adnan's case it has become clearer. Adnan Syed was wrongly convicted of the murder of Hae Lee, but how could he really murder her if he really cared about her and had no ill will toward her.
Adnan Syed loved Hae Lee while they dated but after they broke up he was sad but then like most teenage

A word that means so many different things to so many different people. During the time period that they were investigating this case and throughout the trial Adnan faced a lot of discrimination. The minute he became a suspect his mother believed that he faced discrimination. She said that “he was an easy target” and “We still don’t know why they’re doing it, but again it’s discrimination. Because we are Muslim, and we are minor in this country” (Koening, “The best defense is a good defense”). Adnan was an easy target because he is a minority says his mom. The police usually check the ex-boyfriends and family members but to pick Adnan, a Muslim boy of Pakistani heritage, over Don, a white American boy, kinda seems a little odd. Adnan's mom also talked about how she has been in America for a while now and she never felt discrimination before the trial or even after 9/11 but on the day of the trial, she felt a lot of discrimination (Koenig,“A Best Defense Is a Good Defense”). A trial room should be a place with no discrimination. If the judge felt there was discrimination he should have shut it down right away so it didn't change the jury's mind. Vicki Walsh, the person who was trying to make sure he didn't get bail said that, “ there is a pattern in the United States of America where young Pakistani males have been jilted, have committed murder, and have fled to Pakistan and we have been unable to extradite them back” (Koenig, “The Best Defense Is a Good

So many inconsistencies and the prosecutors still used him as their main witness. One thing Jay changed between two interviews was whether or not he helped dig Haes greave. In the first taped statement Jay claims that he refused to help Adnan dig a grave for Hae. Whereas in the second taped statement he tells the police that they both dug Haes grave (Koenig,“Inconsistencies”). This is a weird thing to forget. Manually digging a hole in the ground just big enough for a body is something memorable. At the beginning when they first discovered her body he was a suspect. If he would have told them right away that he helped bury her body the police wouldn't have been as kind to him so, he lied to make himself sound better. Another thing Jay changed in his story was when he knew that Adnan was planning to kill Hae. During the first interview, he told the police that he didn't know until the day of the murder that Adnan was going to kill Hae. Then during the second interview, he told them that he knew about it about four or five days before (Koenig,“inconsistencies”). Again during the first interview, he probably lied to make himself sound better but either way he knew beforehand and he should have notified the police or someone. Especially if he knew four to five days in advance like he said in the second interview. Not to mention the fact that Jay admitted to the cops that