Category: Adnan Syed

Wrong One Convicted Every year, hundreds of people are wrongfully convicted in the justice system. Defendants have been forced to extensive amounts of jail time or even faced their death before proven innocent, due to the errors that the criminal justice system commits (Leo & Gould 2009). Many of these wrongful convictions are powered by…

Adnans Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial is a 416-page biography written by Rabia Chaudry, a childhood friend of Adnan Syed, the titular subject of the aforementioned biography. Adnan Syed was arrested on February 28 of 1999, and charged with the first-degree murder of his girlfriend Hae Min Lee; however, the trial…

10,000 people are wrongfully convicted of serious crimes each year, and that at least 340 innocent people may have been executed since 1973. Adnan Syed is living proof of this statistic. He was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999. Sarah Koeing unfolds the whole story in her podcast Serial. Throughout…

Introduction to the Case of Adnan Syed Adnan Syed was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Hae Min Lee went missing on the 13th of January 1999. Her body was found less than a month later on February 9th. The cause of death was manual strangulation, meaning somebody choked her to…