The Takeaway

Is He Guilty?

State's Responsibility

Deputy Attorney General Thiru Vignarajah:

“State’s responsibility is to do justice, not to bend what’s fashionable” (Iyer).

The State made it difficult for Adnan Syed to be declared innocent when they created evidence to imprison him. To convict Adnan Syed, State used Hae Min Lee’s autopsy, but they should not have used it, and it should be declared faulty, because of the lividity feature. To determine Adnan Syed’s location during the murder, police received Syed’s AT&T phone records, which proved to faulty, and unreliable. This case is representative of many other cases, such as Anthony Ray Hilton’s case, that feature a possible wrongful conviction, and faulty and unreliable police work (“Hinton Exonerated After 30 Years”). Solving this 2-decade year old case can help shed light on how courts commit wrongful convictions and view faulty police work around the country. By solving possible wrongful convictions, police can improve their image.  Solving this case requires for the case to be finished/ decided on non-guilty for likely wrongfully- committed Adnan Syed. Adnan Syed has likely been wrongfully committed, and the police should release him because of the faulty evidence used. Doing so would be just as he’s spent two decades of his life in jail for murder he most likely did not commit. (Chaudry).

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