Adnan Syed Case Study

Adnan Syed was accused and arrested for a crime I believe he didn’t commit. Adnan was a senior at Woodlawn High School in 1999, and he was arrested for killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, who had gone missing six weeks earlier. Adnan is now serving a life sentence in prison, and has yet to be released. Adnan Syed was found guilty of first degree murder and is sitting in jail, however, he is an innocent man because due process wasn’t followed, there wasn’t enough evidence to show he did it, and he had an affidavit to show he didn’t commit the crime.

Due process is the guarantee that the defendant will get a fair trial, and that’s not what was applied to Adnan Syed’s case. Adnan’s case didn’t have a fair trial because due process wasn’t followed. We don’t exactly know why, because there was evidence they didn’t even check for DNA for Adnan, but it could be because they didn’t know the whole story, or they were just being racist towards him. In a phone call with the Narrator, Adnan had said he “had no motive to kill someone” (The Alibi). This is very

The affidavit never got used because when the investigator came around to fact check from her, he scared Asia, the girl who wrote the affidavit, and she changed her story and made her affidavit invalid. Asia had to get the investigator to stop bothering her and her husband, so she said that she was told to write the affidavit from Adnan’s mother to get him out, but then later when Asia spoke to Rhabia, Rhabia said Asia told her she wasn’t pressured into writing the affidavit. When they asked Asia’s ex boyfriend from high school, he has told the Narrator that “Asia’s not the person who would lie” (The Alibi). When the affidavit for Asia finally was valid again, it was took weeks, because the court announced 2 weeks prior that the time window for the affidavit was