Until Proven Guilty: A Short Story

Until Proven Guilty

Adnan is innocent. Simple as that. As stated in the constitution, you are ‘’Innocent until proven guilty”. Adnan was proven guilty under entirely circumstantial evidence and one man’s word that barely checks out. But yet he has spent nearly two decades of his life behind iron and concrete. The testimony and evidence used against Adnan was enough to convict anyone they chose to imprint on. That sadly was a muslim teenager who pulled the short stick.

Nowadays, phones are in everyone 's hands. GPS is programed in and every electric movement is documented in hard drives in storage facilities all over the country. IN 1998-1999, cell phones were on the rise. More and more people had them. But, as expected, they weren 't as sophisticated. They could only be tracked when they made a call and it bounced off several towers, the first being the closest. The evidence used against Adnan, his cell phone, in Jay’s procession, had pinged several towers, made a lot of calls. ALong with several versions of Jay’s

Student haul their butts to get to their lockers, say goodbye to friends before they finally got to their mode of transport. For Hae that was her car. According to verisan two of Jay’s story, he was Adnan’s ride for most of the day. In order for Hae to actually be dead and in her own trunk in time for the States TOD to be accurate, she (And Adnan) had to be moving with precision and speed to check out with witnesses that saw either of them last. But the state ignored one girl 's testimony. She said she talked to Hae for an extended piece of time, throwing off the race to her murder. Thus contradicting the time when she had to be dead in the back of her trunk at Best Buy. Or was it the BIlliard bar? Where another witness said he say the body. But what about the other witnesses that said she left school right away? Or Jay when he said he picked up Adnan from Best buy. Or was it the