Adnan Syed is a 36 year old who had been convicted of first degree murder at the age of 17 on February 28, 1999. Adnan’s friend Jay Wilds testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae Min Lee’s body back in 1999, but Adnan Syed mentions he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. Adnan was convicted with evidence of his cell phone call logs, Asia’s letters to him, and Jay’s description of the route they took during the day of Hae’s death. Adnan Syed is granted a new trial. Not only has there been mistrials, delay, and not enough evidence but also there has been a conviction towards Adnan resulting with doubt after more than 1 decade later. Jay testified he helped Adnan bury Hae’s body in 1999. “Jays first interview with detectives. He tells them Adnan …show more content…
Adnan had challenged Sarah Koenig by”[telling] her to test the state's timeline of the murder by driving from Woodlawn High School to best buy in 21 minutes. It can’t be done he said. So Sarah and Dana take up the challenge, and raise him one: They try to recreate the entire route that Jay said him and Adnan took on January 13th, 1999”(Route Talk, Sarah Koenig). Adnan was convicted with a route that Jay mapped out to the police men involved in his case. Sarah Koenig was challenged due to the delay at school and traffic than any other time of day because it was when his peers and unknown worker in the area were dismissed. Sarah then gained knowledge from the timeline… that the route cannot all fit in 21 minutes and if it were to happen it left Adnan 3 minutes to strangle her and put her in the trunk in front of many people at best. “[A map was shown with] the key locations in the story and the cell towers that were triggered by Adnan’s cell phone on January 13, 1999”( podcast, Sarah Koenig). Adnan’s cell phone he had bought about a week before Hae’s death, was used as evidence with the cell tower map of where and when his cell phone was used for calls and messages. Not to mention, Adnan didn’t have his cell phone throughout the whole day of January 13, 1999, he had let Jay borrow it either because he needed Jay to pick him up from Best Buy after Hae’s death, or because Jay didn’t have a cell
Obsidian Mekediak Tyler Bonnette RD 117 19 Dec 2022 Rhetorical Analysis of Sarah Koenig’s ‘Serial’ Adnan Syed was convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee February 25, 2000. Syed has claimed his innocence since he was arrested. Syed’s conviction was based on Jay Wilds’ testimony. Wilds claimed Syed had strangled Hae Min Lee, and convinced Wilds to help bury her body. Sarah Koenig’s initial purpose of creating the podcast ‘Serial’ and investigating the conviction of Adnan Syed for the murder of Hae Min Lee was to conclude if the state's case against Syed was flawed and in doing that, Koenig was successful.
The Serial podcast narrated by Sarah Koenig. Tells a story about a teenage boy Adnan Syed who was falsely accused of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. For the past months tuning in on this podcast I have not been convinced that there is any physical evidence, or anything that can in fact draw Adnan to this crime. The evidence is indeed flimsy. I have come to the conclusion that with the lack of evidence that Adnan is indeed innocent.
The podcast Serial by Sarah Koenig is about a court case that began in 1999. The narrator introduces us to several people who were involved in the death of Hae Min Lee, a high school student from Baltimore. She tells the story week by week, explaining the tragedy and the court’s decision on their main suspect; Adnan Syed. There is a controversy against the case, if Adnan was innocent or guilty. After looking at the evidence given in the first 5 episodes, it’s hard to believe he committed the murder.
On January 13th, 1999, a popular senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland, disappears. The girl, Hae Min Lee, was later found in Leakin Park with marks proving she was strangled to death. Six weeks later, Adnan Syed, Lee’s classmate and ex-boyfriend, was arrested and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. A friend of Adnan, Jay, who graduated the spring prior from Woodlawn, is the only person with a timeline for the 13th of January and, unfortunately, it makes Adnan look guilty. But, with multiple inconsistencies and stories that do not match the other gathered evidence, Jay’s story is not perfect.
Adnan states he liked Christina and believed she put a lot of effort into his case. Adnan had trust in the judicial system and pleaded his innocence. He believed if he told the truth, justice would be served. Christina was sick while representing Adnan. She had multiple sclerosis complicated by diabetes, ultimately dying in 2004.
Two prime suspects are from your school, one her ex boyfriend and the other the ex’s friend. This became a reality in Woodlawn High School when Hae Min Lee, a senior, went missing on January 13. Adnan syed, the victim's ex, and Jay, a friend of Adnan’s, are two key suspects in the murder. This case was brought to the public’s attention with help from Sarah Koenig, the producer of a podcast called “Serial”. Serial is about who the world thinks committed this gruesome crime that took place in Baltimore.
With so many different stories and countless pieces to the puzzle, it’s hard to find the truth beneath it all. As we listened to the case of Adnan Syed unfold, through the podcast Serial, by Sarah Koenig, we see just how hard it is to find the truth with so many changing stories and endless lies. Adnan Syed was convicted, and sentenced to life in prison, for the murder of Hae Min Lee. Adnan was Hae’s ex-boyfriend and they both attended Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland.
No parents should ever have to bury their children. For the Lee family they not only lost a child but still live with the horror of not knowing who took their daughter’s life. On January 13, 1999, Baltimore, Maryland was racked with drama and tension when Woodlawn High School senior Hae Min Lee disappeared after school. Her mutilated body was discovered behind a log in Leakin Park on February 9, 1999 by a mysterious man know as Mr. S. Reports pin the cause of death on strangulation. After a long and drawn out trial, Hae Min Lee’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison.
This was quite the battle for Adnan Syed, a young oriental male who was accused of murdering his long-time girlfriend in January of 1999. Hae-Min Lee, Adnan’s girlfriend, went missing in January and her body was found buried in a local park 3 weeks later. Adnan Syed is innocent of killing Hae-Min Lee because of three reasons: Cristina Gutierrez, Adnan’s lawyer, failed to put him in a position to win the trial, Jay is not an effective witness, and the window of time does not match up. Adnan is not at fault
Anya Schultz, the author of a review titled Serial: A Captivating New Podcast, works to show how multiple narratives and stories can be manipulated and sometimes vastly misinterpreted. Serial, an intriguing, enthralling podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, tells the story of Hae Min Lee, a young, beautiful, high school senior who was murdered in 1999. Lee 's case, as Koenig and Schultz point out, has a few missing pieces of information that were never accounted for. For example, how did the jury come to the conclusion that Lee 's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was truly guilty? Why did Syed 's lawyer forget to mention the letter from his acquaintance Asia McClain that could have polished his alibi?
Adnan Syed has spent more than half his life in prison for a crime the police say he committed, but was it really him who commited the crime? My claim is that Adnan is innocent. In 1999 Adnan Syed was convicted for murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. The police’s main resource was Adnan’s acquaintance Jay Wilds. There was no motive for Adnan to kill Hae.
Serial, a podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig investigates the events that led up to the crime - uncovering the details and nuances that could potentially resolve this case. However, finding the answer was not as easy as she had anticipated. Throughout the podcast, Koenig address the flaws in the American justice system through Adnan’s case by highlighting the injustice
The State of Maryland. This case is highlighted by the podcast Serial, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Adnan is innocent because there is not enough physical and reliable witness evidence linking Adnan to the murder of Hae. Hae’s Lividity Hae’s lividity proves Adnan’s innocence by counterclaiming
Serial, a weekly podcast, revisits the 1999 murder case of Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, and her former boyfriend convicted of the crime, Adnan Syed. In the United States, the law says that someone is innocent until proven guilty and with certain evidence presented in the podcast, Adnan is far from guilty. Serial brings to light new evidence that could answer the question of Adnan Syed’s wrongful imprisonment. With the inconsistency of Jay Wilds incriminating testimony, the irrational judgments by the police based on behavior and the possibility of the involvement of corrupt detectives, newly gathered evidence could prove that Adnan Syed is innocent.
Relationships, lies, murder, conviction. These are all aspects that come into play when talking about the January 13th, 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee. Adnan Syed, Hae’s 17-year-old ex-boyfriend was convicted of her murder in 2000. The problem with this is that the only evidence the state had to convict Adnan was the stories told by others, specifically someone named Jay who was with Adnan for some of the day Hae went missing and had possession of Adnan’s car and cell phone. He claims Adnan made him come pick him up after the murder was committed and assist him in burying Hae’s body.