Adnan Syed Essay

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.” -Bruce Willis. In the case of Adnan Syed, the justice system failed him in terms of the discriminatory acts surrounding his race and ethnicity and the way evidence was presented in court. Although all audiences can identify the corruption and inadequate use of evidence in his defense, this does not prove his innocence. In the case surrounding the murder of Hae Min Lee, Adnan Syed, a seventeen year old high schooler and Hae’s ex-boyfriend, was convicted of committing first-degree murder in 2000 and is currently serving a life sentence plus thirty years at the Maryland Correctional Facility. On January 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee, an honors student and star athlete,was

These different and complex pieces of the case are examined and portrayed through the podcast serial from the creators of This American Life. Sarah Koenig, an american journalist and host, searched through thousands of pieces of evidence and documents to bring audiences insight into this complex and detailed case of Adnan Syed. With my deductive reasoning of the evidence provided in Serial and general knowledge of the case, I strongly consider Adnan Syed as the one who murdered, strangled, and disposed of the body of Hae Min Lee. Those who have confidence in the guilt of Adnan claim that the invalidated alibi’s, the Nisha call at 2:36pm, and Adnan’s claim of no remembrance of events all provide notable and significant importance in proving his guilt. Even with substantial evidence proving his guilt, those who stand by his innocence can argue that not all alibi’s are insufficient evidence, the Nisha call could be a butt dial, and finally the fact it was a normal day because he wasn’t involved. But it is hard to deny the fact that every aibi from after school can be proven wrong, the unlikelihood of the Nisha call being just a simply butt dial, and the events that evidently made the day