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Murder Of Hae Min Lee Analysis
Hello, I am Counselor Sarah I’m here to talk about the murder of Hae Min Lee made by Adnan Syed. I am here to say that Adnan Syed is innocent. I concluded this with the following evidence. The first piece of evidence is, Jay has been changing the story to many times (I shall explain what I mean by this in the next paragraph). The second piece of evidence is the Asia’s Affidavit, she has been recalling everything she remembers that day, which includes when he was at the library. Then, the last piece of evidence is he had no rage or anger to attempt a murder towards her.

First, Jay has been changing the story to where it doesn’t even make sense and doesn’t add up. Sure, it has been almost 17 years, but the story has been scrambled where no
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Adnan entered the library at around 2:30, sadly she left at around 2:40 but Adnan was still in the library at that time. With those time stamps it helps him prove that he didn’t do it. The time stamps help to say that he had no way to be in two places at once (because obviously there’s only one Adnan Syed).

Back to the conversation that Asia and Adnan had, she described that when they talked about his ex-girlfriend he seemed extremely calm and caring. If this is true then that means he didn’t put as much thought into it and was okay with the break up. There wasn’t a real reason to kill Hae, I mean there was no rage over it so why would he do it? Even family and friends are saying that he didn’t do it. I personally believe he didn’t do it and that Jay did. I mean why would someone admit to burying the body.

Last but not least another thing I personally believe that may be a possibility is that it was the other way around. Adnan probably helped bury the body and not kill her. This could be a possibility but even if it is, Adnan has served his time and deserves to be set free because in the end he did not do it. At the moment this is all the evidence I could


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