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Why Did Adnan Syed Killed Hae Min Lee?
For the past couple of weeks we have been listening to podcast called serial, It is all to figure out whether or not Adnan Syed killed Hae min lee. In this essay I will tell you my thoughts and beliefs on this subject. To start this off I know that this could tick some people off but I believe that Adnan did it. “Why, He would never do something like this” Some people will say, and my answer just like many in the podcast serial have said. All of the evidence points directly at Adnan. I honestly believe that they had just enough evidence to convict him of this murder. Let's start from the beginning. Adnan and Hae have history, They were very in love at one point in each others lives and would do anything for each other. Until it all ended, (mostly because of Adnan’s family). After this nobody knew how either of them felt about each other. Some believe that this break-up completely wrecked Adnan. He was angry, sad, and had no idea what to do without Hae. But …show more content…
His attorney did not do her job in the best way. Cristina Gutierrez Adnan’s attorney took another route in trying to keep Adnan out of jail. She tried her best to make it look like somebody else committed the crime. Not that Adnan was innocent just that someone else had done this horrible thing. To me that just seems like trying to pass the blame onto someone else. A lawyer is supposed to do their job no matter guilty or innocent. So if Adnan is guilty then he probably told cristina if he was guilty and this was her only way to fight for Adnan. The thing that surprises me the most was that Adnan never gave his own statement. He never tried to defend himself in any way. Yes I know that this ending statement doesn’t help much in the long run but he didn’t try to convince the jury at all he was just done with it. Some of the jury got on the podcast and said that this changed their minds about Adnan’s case, the fact that he wouldn’t get up and defend

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