Adnan Syed Essay

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Adnan Syed is the victim of one of the worst crimes known to mankind; false accusation. Adnan is a model student, does well in sports, and is simply just a kid in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or, his cell phone is in the wrong place at the wrong time. The majority of the case that the prosecution displays to the jury relies on the word of Jay, someone who lied multiple times in his police interview until he found the right story. One major point going against Jay's story is that one of Hae’s friends saw her after the time she was supposed to have been killed by, although this was never brought up in trial. However, the jury still was able to convict Adnan of first degree murder based on the word of a known liar and without key evidence …show more content…
When Jay told the detectives that Adnan had murdered Hae, he said in two different interviews that each statement was made to the best of his abilities and were the honest truth. This must be a lie as Jay simply did not mix up small details about the day, he entirely changed his story so that the place where he saw the body was completely different. This is not the sign of a trustworthy individual, and in such a case where the sole source of evidence is one individual, it is discomforting to see the amount of change in his story. The prosecution seemed to work around these inconsistencies and listen to only what they wanted to hear. According to Detective Ritz, “they believed Jay’s story because ‘we were able to investigate and corroborate what he was saying,’” (Episode 4). In this case, the prosecution ignored the fact that Jay mislead them at many points of the case, and instead focused on what they wanted to hear, being that Adnan had killed Hae. However, since Jay is the entirety of the prosecution's argument, this means that their evidence came from an untrustworthy source, and therefore what he says cannot be