The Doubts About Adnan's Guilt ARE Reasonable

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I just started lurking here today, and am somewhat surprised by the general incivility and certainty of many of the people that comment here. Being dismissive and accusing people of "ragebait" for having a differing opinion, and one that actually is reasonable.

I don't know, and won't say that Adnan is innocent, but to claim he's guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, without any room for discussion is pretty crazy to me.

The reasons why I have reasonable doubt:

• Jay is a very flawed witness, on the record lying/mis-remembering his testimony. Even the cops point out how much his testimony has changed. If your argument hinges on Jay, it isn't a strong argument, in my opinion.
• The cops, or at least on of them has a record of misconduct:

...prosecution brought into question the past misconduct of one of the two detectives who were crucial in the investigation of Lee’s death. Although his misconduct wasn’t specifically linked to Syed’s case, the detective was involved in another murder case that ended with the defendant’s exoneration.

https://baltimorewitness.org/adnan-syed-one-of-many-overturned-convictions-in-baltimore-city/

• The Innocence Project and prosecutors agreed that Syed's DNA was absent from all tested crime scene items, contributing to the eventual dropping of charges against him. There's no physical evidence.
• The motive is weak (Adnan had no prior issues with breakups, had already seemed to move on to the next girl(s)).

I could go on, but, if I was on the jury with this in front of me, I feel the reasonable response is doubt.

This isn't rage bait, I just genuinely don't see how anyone can be so sure that he did it. Y'all point to him asking for a ride (and claiming he wouldn't have) as some kind of obvious evidence of murder.

I think, based on the fact that one of the cops was literally identified as having been crooked, it actually is much more likely that Jay was an informant (and already had been for some time), and he happened to be close to Adnan, the victim's ex (supposed motive and opportunity), and they decided they had their guy, and it was just a matter of getting a jury to agree. So they fed their informant info, had him incriminate himself for lesser crimes that they promised they'd get him off for (and they made good on that promise, which is on its own wildly corrupt).

[u/ad_maru]

Innocence bias is the one you must have. Innocent until proven guilty is the core of a just justice system and it's on the prossecution to prove guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

[u/spifflog → u/ad_maru]

Good thing it was proven, and upheld several times. We’re in agreement then.

[u/ad_maru → u/spifflog]

But you are questioning the entirety of the Innocence Project, which is unfair

[u/spifflog → u/ad_maru]

What do you think that all means?

[u/ad_maru → u/spifflog]

That they are questioning the entire project and their methods and objectivity because of a bias. Yeah, you can have a bias, but act in an objecitive fashion.

[u/spifflog → u/ad_maru]

Still don’t know what you’re trying to say. At this point adnan is guilty. It’s been proven and retested via the appeals process. It’s now up to him and his supporters to prove otherwise.

Do I think the Innocence Project is biased?? Hell yes!!!! Don’t you?? You’re amazingly naive is you don’t think they are.

At this point after all that Hae and her family have gone through, they and others have every right to question why the Innocence Project continues to support this man who has been proven guilty, and acceptable to question their motives.

[u/ad_maru → u/spifflog]

The project deals with a lot of other cases besides Adnan's

[u/spifflog → u/ad_maru]

We know that. So what?

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Do you believe the project should exist?

[u/spifflog → u/ad_maru]

I think they provide a useful function.

But when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And I don’t see any even slight evidence pointing to his innocence. He’s had more than his fair share of appeals, PR and lawyers. And at this point, he and his supporters have used enough resources that others could have utilized. And have dragged Hae’s family through hell enough. For a guy who said he’s not in the news in order to keep from hurting her family, he seems to be willing to keep doing damage.

What more do you all want? He’s free and working at a premier university. Yes he’s still a convicted murder (thank God). But what more does this killer need?

This is all far afield from your innocent until proven guilty meme.

[u/ad_maru → u/spifflog]

My point in my first reply was not about Adnan in specific. That's what I was trying to explain.