Adnan Syed Of Murder Case

During the month of February in 1999 a trial took place convicting a seventeen year old boy, Adnan Syed of murder in the first degree for killing Hae Min Lee. Although, it becomes apparent to the observant viewers of the podcast Serial, a production of WBEZ Chicago, that there are many holes in Syed’s trial which draws the question, who was it that allowed his conviction go through? After all this trial not only contained evidence that with the new evidence gathered more recently can disprove, but practically contained fairly little evidence against Adnan and the trial was only held up by the testimony from Jay, a friend of Syed’s, and the lack of Adnan’s alibi. Also, to add on to all of the factors against Adnan it is possible he had a crooked defense.

Asia McClain a now 33 year old stay at home mother is approached some 15 years after the trial.

Asia claims that she now recounts information that could very well be used as a testimony in court in favor of Adnan. Asia says that not only herself, but her former boyfriend Derrick had seen Adnan on the day of Hae’s death. They had both seen Adnan in the public library that is practically connected to the schools grounds and that they would have seen Adnan around at the time Adnan was supposedly in the car with Hae. Adnan was assumed checking his email on the computer in the public library. Adnan’s alibi supplied by Asia not only proves he is innocent, but that he wasn’t even near the scene of the crime. Although the evidence seems to be game changing, the judge said that Asia can no longer be used due to the longevity of her testimony and can no longer be counted as legitimate proof. Not to mention that the surveillance cameras that the library had previously had is non-existent. And any other witnesses as well. This is extremely off, where were these witnesses during the

trial?
Christina Gutierrez, currently deceased, was Adnan’s lawyer during the trials. With this being said she had a lot of control over the outcome of the trial. Considering he is either innocent or has slim to none evidence against him. Both of those factors were very likely and there was evidence that could have been used to prove them. However, another weird thing about this trial is that Christina refused to use evidence that would have helped Adnan’s case tremendously. It can be assumed that Christina was gambling the trial for a retrial so that she would make more money, why else would she avoid evidence like Asia McClain or going to the library and get the surveillance tapes that would prove Adnan innocent? She claims that it was strategic not to use Asia’s testimony. The only way Christina’s strategy would be useful is if you want to unveil the evidence later to spark a possible retrial.
Adnan’s trial was conducted mercilessly, having almost unbelievably no defense. Although, there seems to a lot of evidence that would immediately prove Adnan’s innocence. First of all Asia’s acclaim was detrimental to the trial any sane lawyer would have used her testimony which, in great detail described January 33, 1999 and where the convict of 15 years actually was rather that murdering Hae Min Lee. Not to mention the surveillance in the public library where he was supposedly at and the sign in sheet that would have been displayed with his signature in order to use the computers to check his emails. Syed’s trial is nothing, but odd and perhaps corrupt Adnan could have very well been innocent with the proper alibi. However, there was nothing but slim evidence against him which led Adnan to his permanent residence in prison.