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Adnan Is Guilty
Usually people don’t think much about murders being convicted and put into jail. If the court decides that someone is guilty of a murder, then you will automatically assume that they’re guilty. Well in the podcast Serial, by Sarah Koenig, a man named Adnan Syed is convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee. This podcast really makes you start thinking about who really killed Hae. With the evidence in the podcast, I have decided that Adnan is guilty. Adnan killed Hae because the, “neighbor boy” claims that he had seen a body been put into the trunk of a car by Adnan, Nisha put Jay and Adnan together when Adnan was supposed to be somewhere else, and Kathy thinks that Jay’s and Adnan’s behavior was unusual.
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In serial, Kathy states that she had a random guy who was high in her living room, and who was friends with Jay. She said that he was acting weird the whole time that he was there and that he had gotten a phone call before he left. While he talked on the phone she said he looked worried and like he didn’t know what to do, then he burst out of the room without saying anything. This looks sketchy because he was high in the first place, then just ran outside without a word. If he was so worried, you would think that he would try to act more casual and less suspicious, or maybe it was the drugs that were keeping him from thinking straight. After he left the room, he sat in his car and talked to Jay for a long time. After a while though, he left. This information is useful for the case against Adnan because it shows that Adnan is hiding something. Without this information, Adnan would not seem very sketchy, and like he is hiding something. So, with this information, you are able to conclude that Adnan got a call from someone that made him feel

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