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How Did Jay Wilds Kill Hae

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Adnan Syed, a senior in Woodlawn High School, was convicted and charged with the first-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999. Not only is Adnan’s alibi inconclusive, but he also fails to recall any specific details or occurrences of January 13th-the date Hae Min Lee disappeared. His acquaintance, Jay Wilds, has served as the State’s key witness. Despite having already served seventeen years in prison, Adnan did not murder Hae Min Lee. His innocence simply has not been captured due to missing perspectives, inconsistencies in Jay’s story, and biases in the law enforcement.
The State of Maryland has charged Adnan with Hae’s murder solely using Jay’s alibi as their premise; they overlooked the alibis of former Woodlawn High School students who knew of Adnan, Hae, or Jay. Asia McClain, a …show more content…

Jay was a “drug dealer who worked in a porn video store” (Alvim 15). He ran an “operation out of [his] grandmother’s house...had a lot more on the line than just a few bags of weed”(Vargas-Cooper). Indisputably, Jay was a delinquent unlike Adnan, an esteemed Muslim teen referred to as the “community’s golden child”(Zaman 3). The law enforcement’s trust in Jay’s words is inconceivable; Jay is pathological liar and hooligan that has incessantly broken the law. Jay is dishonest even towards his own friend, Jenn. “When [Jenn] asked [Jay] if he was involved in the crime in any way he denie[d] it stating that even though Adnan asked for his help to bury Hae’s body, he did not help him, he only took Adnan somewhere in the city and dropped him off”(Alvim 15). Indeed, Jay seems to be minimizing his participation in the crime in order to protect himself. An innocent man would not have massive inconsistencies in his story. The discrepancies in Jay’s testimony have concealed the truth, causing for the State to have a clouded judgement on the Adnan’s

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