Analyzing Adnan Syed's Short Story Of 'Guilty'

“Guilty”. Guilty: it was that one, six letter word that would forever shake and destroy Adnan Syed’s entire world. In an instance, he would go from a high school honours student with a propitious track career to just another name on the long list of the nearly ten thousand Americans who are wrongly convicted each year. Adnan is innocent, and Serial, a popular podcast series narrated by Sarah Koenig, puts light on Adnan’s tragic story of how such a promising young man can be stripped of his innocence, freedom, and life, in one of the most controversial trial’s of this generation. A trial loaded with lying witnesses, whom would do anything to keep themselves and their friends safe, inconclusive evidence that’s full of holes and missing pieces, and a struggling judicial system that was being publicly pressured into solving the case quickly. It is for those reasons, that Adnan Syed is innocent and that his case was unlawful. To begin, the witnesses’ stories in Adnan’s case were not only full of lies and missing information, but also completely unrealistic. The first lying witness was Jay Wilds. Jay, accused Adnan of killing Hae Min Lee, his ex girlfriend and claimed he helped bury the body. His accusation is completely false and it has some explicit missing details. For starters, Jay starts his story by saying Adnan told him he was going to “kill that bitch, referring to Hae [Min] Lee.” This is not an unusual statement, and most high school students would agree that they hear that statement exclaimed …show more content…
The good news is that he is getting a new trial because the courts are finally beginning to realize his trial was full of lying witnesses, inconclusive evidence and was hurried along because of public pressure. His new trial, is certain to end with a better outcome for the defendant because, Adnan Syed is