Adnan Syed Persuasive Essay

While listening to the Serial Podcasts I heard many different people voicing their opinion on whether Adnan Syed is guilty or innocent. My opinion is that he is an innocent person who was wrongly prosecuted. The whole case is built on a timeline that has many flaws, and they call it a crime of passion or crime of pride. However, they have no evidence of how Adnan might have felt. In addition, they have no physical evidence to pin on Adnan. I think this case was poor executed, and they just arrested Adnan to have a person in custody for the crime. The first thing that swayed my mind to think of Adnan as an innocent person was the fact there was no physical evidence. How can you convict a person if you have absolutely no physical evidence what so ever? Sarah Koenig accepted the help from Deirdre Enright and her two team members. She gave Deirdre the case file, and Deirdre had two team members look the …show more content…
The call logs is what built the prosecutors case against Adnan Syed, and the timeline of that day added to their case. Some of the calls do not line up with the towers and timeline they have. Also, Jay’s interviews are a little different each time, but Jim Trainum said to disregard the little inconsistencies. However, Jay’s first interview has a big difference from the second interview. In his first interview he said he knew that day, January 13, Adnan was going to or did kill Hae Min Lee. On the other hand, in his second interview Jay said he knew at least four days before Hae’s body turned up; Adnan was going to kill Hae. In addition Jay mentions Patapsco Park in his interview with the police, but he never says anything about it during the trial because it messes with the timeline the prosecution has. Another thing they didn’t mention in court was Asia McClain’s alibi for Adnan that day. Had they questioned her further, and brought her up in court, things could have gone differently once again for