Would you ask somebody you hardly knew to help you with committing murder, telling them the details just hoping they wouldn't tell a soul?
Would you risk throwing away your life because you wanted help with a murder you could have done alone? Ask yourself that. That brings me to this case of first degree murder of Hae Min Lee in Baltimore in 1999 which ended in the wrongful conviction of her ex Adnan Syed. The only witness to the entire crime changed their story on 3 different occasions when being questioned. Another lost witness was never batted an eye at. Despite all of the wrongdoing by everyone else , the convicted was charged mainly off phone records and one’s word against another’s.
There was only ever one witness brought up to stand, but there was one other witness though. Asia McClain saw Adnan in the library during the time of Hae Min Lee’s disappearance and murder. She was never called to the stand, questioned or ever spoken to about Adnan as if nobody actually cared to find the truth
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During the trial a key page about the unreliability of phone records was never picked up or looked (that we know of) until after the case was settled. When they subpoenaed Adnan's subscriber activity report from AT&T and a page with instructions saying “In coming calls are not reliable for determining location”, only a few pages were submitted into evidence and that being one that was not. Yes, Adnan made the phone calls but most likely not around the Leakin Park cell phone towers. This is a huge problem because the cell phone towers were the foundation to the states case. The states cell phone tower expert at trial was not even aware of these instructions during his testimony. They were only actually brought to his attention in 2015 that's 15 years after syeds 2000
A case in which Officer Michael Slager fell victim to when the courts later changed their verdict after being presented with a video of what really happened. “. if not for bystander Feidin Santana’s video casting doubt on office Michael Slagers version of events, he may not have quickly been charged with murder.” Imagine if this man would have been set free only to think getting away with murder is easy. Seeming that a person is an employee of the law, jurors’ do not expect them to lie.
When Hae Min Lee disappeared on January 13, 1999, all of her friends (including the subsequently charged killer, Adnan Syed) thought that she moved to California. Hae’s body turned up a few weeks later on February 9, and the police later charged Adnan Syed, her ex-boyfriend with her murder. Jay Wilds, an alleged accomplice to the crime, confessed to the police that he knew that Adnan killed Hae and Adnan tasked him with burying her. The state later used Jay’s testimony as the foundation for their case, even though it contradicted some of the state’s own physical evidence. While Jay’s eyewitness testimony does identify Adnan Syed as Hae Lee’s murderer, it is self-serving and inconsistent, with no physical evidence to corroborate it. Therefore,
This reason makes sense because Asia and even a friend of hers claim that they saw and even spoke to Adnan that day and at that time Hae was murdered. This part of the story is when Asia found out Adna was arrested so she wrote him a letter explaining what she remembered about seeing him that day and time. This is from the letter “Im not sure if you remember talking to me in the library january 13’th,but I remember”. This means Adnan is innocent because he was not murdering Hae at the time he was at the library. Therefore Adnan is innocent because Asia’s letters prove that he was at the library at the time Hae was
You’re woken up by police officers one morning. They say that they are taking you to be questioned for the murder of Hae Min Lee. That’s what happened to Adnan Syed, a young man sentenced to life in prison for murdering his ex-girlfriend. This would be any old hear-it-and-forget-it case, except that there were multiple problems with the case. The evidence that the State used was flawed. So, because there has not been any evidence presented that can prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, Adnan is not guilty.
On January 13th, 1999, a high school girl from Baltimore, Maryland, Hae Min Lee disappeared after school. Hae was found just a few miles away in Leakin Park, a few weeks later, where it was determined that the cause of death was manual strangulation. Not long after, Hae’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed was arrested and tried for her murder and is now spending life in prison. After hearing Sarah Koneig’s Podcast, Serial where she went back to re-investigate the trial it became clear that the jury does not have enough evidence to convict Adnan Syed for the murder of Hae Min Lee for many reasons including, the lack of evidence, lack of motive, and the reliance of memory is not enough to convict Adnan Syed.
When the jury dropped the hammer on Adnan Syed and found him guilty of murdering Hae Min Lee, there were some flaws in the case that may have skewed the case against the 17-year old from Baltimore, Maryland. The case is about Hae Min Lee, a responsible Woodlawn High student, being murdered by strangulation, and Adnan is the supposed killer. Sarah Koenig is a radio announcer that took interest in this case because the story was interesting. The case is about Hae Min Lee, a responsible Woodlawn High student, being murdered by strangulation, and Adnan is the supposed killer. Sarah Koenig is a radio announcer that took interest in this case because the story was interesting.
Lack of evidence, by itself, might not be enough to prove he is innocent. The prosecutors know that they do not have anything that directly links Adnan to any
Family’s usually tend to force their kids in to the religion they follow and expect them to make no sin which leads to the hide and seek game between the parents and the kids. Adnan’s family were Muslims that migrated from pashuar, Pakistan. Where the smallest thing as a man and women that are not related cannot be having a conversation what so ever. Dating was not acceptable, it’s either marriage or single. Adnan was not allowed to date or have girl friends or be a normal American teenage but he did it anyways without his parent’s knowledge. The prosecutor at the time claimed that Adnan’s motive to strangle Hae is that he gave up his religion, put himself in a river of sin and dissed his parent’s by dating a girl but when Hae called it off he was left with nothing. He killed her out of not love but pride. Even though this is an understandable point, Adnan was never really a strict Muslim. He goes out clubbing, drink alcohol, have sex with different girls…pretty much everything a Muslim person should not be doing. Him dating Hae didn’t make him anymore sin that he usually make in a daily basis. He never felt like hae have taken him out of his religion road because he was never in one. He didn’t have a motive to kill Hae because they both moved on in to other people but kept a good friendship between them so all of a sudden he couldn’t have felt betrayed enough to kill her. The reasonable question here is why did Adnan tell the police officer in the first interview that he was expecting a ride from hae that day and later when interviewed again denied asking hae a ride because he have his own car and don’t have a reason to ask her for a ride knowing that she always picks up her little cousin from school right when she gets out of school. Why would he lie about that, and did he really ask her for a ride as Jay and some of Hae’s friends claimed or he did not. Even though this
Near the end of the episode, a girl is introduced who claims to clearly remember the day that Hae disappeared. Asia McClain believes that she saw and talked to Adnan in the library the day Hae went missing. She wrote two letters to Adnan and then an affidavit, but she was never contacted by a lawyer. When the case was petitioned, the judge ruled that Asia’s story is legally worthless as an alibi for Adnan because it contradicts his testimony.
One of the most intense group task experiences in the United States is that of serving on the jury of a death penalty case. This forces a group of complete strangers to come together and determine the fate of another’s human beings life. The court case of the State of Ohio v Mark Ducic, was of no exception. Ducic a 47 year old drug addict white male, was accused of committing a double homicide. In accordance with Ohio state law, murdering more than one individual is considered a mass murder and therefore the accused is subject to the possibility of the death penalty. Ducic’s victims included Barbara Davis, his domestic partner and drug addict, as well as a drug user that Ducic was an acquaintance with. The death of Davis was at first believed to be due to an overdose, but police informants identified Ducic’s voice on a recording claiming that he killed her. The other victim, the drug addict, was thought to be eliminated by Ducic for fear that he would inform the police that he killed Davis. Investigators believed that Ducic gave both victims a deathly amount of drugs that would make it appear as though they both simply overdosed. Ducic was found guilty on both occasions, yet a second trial in regards to his sentencing had to occur and another hearing had to be conducted on whether or not to remove the death penalty.
The court must find more evidence and not to depend on eyewitness testimony and to look for the best people as possible. Besides, there more evidence that DNA testing. Eyewitness must be proven in order to arrest the right suspect and question the suspect to get more evidence in steady of keeping in prison for false witness. The police for tracking everywhere the suspect went and people the suspect contact with that time. It will solve the problem by asking the eyewitness question and the suspect questions to see if both things they said
Furthermore, there are two major assumptions the prosecution makes that are unsupported. Both regarding the cell phone records of January 13th. One is that the 2:36 pm call from Adnan’s phone, which the prosecutors say is the “come get me, I’m at Best Buy” call, has no testimony to back it up. Even Jay repeatedly states that he got that call from Adnan at around 3:45 pm. However, since they couldn’t
At the age of 14, Davontae Sanford was sentenced to 90 years in prison for killing four people in a Detroit home. In 2008, Vincent Smothers the real killer confessed to the crime, shot had already confessed a month prior. He served 9 years in prison for murders he did not commit, until his case was finally reinvestigated. He was exonerated through the re-examination of his confession which was presumed to be coerced. There appeared to be many discrepancies in Sanford’s confession and police statements. Before the teen confessed, he was questioned by a police investigator who contacted a former homicide detective that Sanford was related to. The former detective asked Sanford to be “truthful.” Police investigators drove him around through the
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.
I have killed a couple who usually rule the media. It seems natural to assume I have now taken their place. I am made aware that this event occurred during the night, though my only witness is that of god, and the couple who I believe are now six feet below the earth. There is no one else left to testify against me, from what I have heard. Yet still, all of the evidence is not in my favour. In my head, I watch my slim chance of freedom wash away with the rain water, down the drain and into the system. The lawyers become heated. Clearing his throat, the Judge smacks down the gabble, ordering silence. It all means nothing. I have slipped away with the nonsense words of these people. I will