The case of Adnan Syed and how he was accused of murdering Hae Min Lee is something that is still puzzling to me a week later. I always want to believe the best of someone and how a boy who seemed golden couldn’t be of harm to someone. After listening to Sarah Koenig’s narration of the case on the podcast Serial, I have to believe that Adnan is guilty.
In Serial we see Adnan as a golden boy …
He was an honour roll student, volunteer EMT. He was on the football team. He was a star runner on the track team. He was the homecoming king. He led prayers at the mosque. Everybody knew Adnan to be somebody who was going to do something really big.
This was a quote from the podcast, this first impression made me think, well if he was this perfect, how could it of gone so wrong so quickly? This made me sympathize with Adnan because I felt he had been framed for the crime of murder. Adnan had a friend named Jay, who gave a testimony which practically gave Adnan right to the police. This testimony “proved” Adnan guilty.
There was no real evidence that her murdered Hae and yet he is still in jail. I personally question the police work done for this case and how it was solved so quickly. I question that Jay really saw Hae’s body in the trunk of his car and how still no evidence was found. It makes me believe that maybe, just maybe Adnan could be innocent.
Despite me wanting to think the best of Adnan, Sarah made a excellent point about memory. How are teenagers supposed to remember what they did six weeks ago. When the argument and possible alibi from Asia came up I thought that Adnan must be innocent now. Then my mind went back to the memory argument and now what if Asia made this up just to take him out.
In conclusion I think that Adnan has to be held accountable and guilty for the murder of Hae. There is no evidence to either prove him innocent or guilty but that testimony Jay gave. The police had to trust Jay because he was the only person at the time that knew of what Adnan did that day. If humans start to doubt the Judicial system then possible killers like Adnan would be free in the public to do what they please. Overall I believe that Adnan is guilty for the Murder of Hae Min Lee.
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Works Cited
Fienberg, Daniel. “’The Case Against Adnan Syed’: TV Review.” The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2019, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/case-adnan-syed-review-1188823.
Margaritoff, Marco. “The Full Story Of Adnan Syed And Hae Min Lee’s Murder Only Hinted At In ‘Serial’.” All That’s Interesting, All That’s Interesting, 22 Mar. 2019, allthatsinteresting.com/adnan-syed-murder-of-hae-min-lee.
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