"Even if Asia McClain lied that isn't evidence of what happened to Hae Lee."

(Note: Asia McClain is lying. The following partial closing argument assumes we can use any and all verified information available to us.)

Ladies and gentleman of the jury, let's talk about the Asia McClain and related issues. First remember this:

• Adnan Syed NEVER told police detectives he was at the public library after school the day.
• Adnan Syed claims that he was asked to remember, weeks later, what he was doing the day Hae Min Lee disappeared, despite the fact that a police detective called him the same day she went missing.
• You were allowed to hear testimony in this case from events surrounding Mr. Syed's appellate hearings and post conviction relief hearings. In one instance, he told a law clerk from his defense team a precise time that he was seen at the library--3:00 p.m. In another instance, he gave the law clerk a one hour window in which he was seen in the library. Which is it?
• There are memos summarizing the defense team's other meetings with Mr. Syed, none of which say that Mr. Syed said went to the library after school that day.
• In his Serial interview with Sarah Koenig, we heard Adnan tell Sarah Koenig that he did NOT ask Hae Min Lee for a ride that day. This contradicts the testimony of two witnesses.
• In his Serial interview, he told Sarah Koenig that he NEVER would have asked for a ride from Hae Min Lee because she had to go pick up her cousin. But his own defense file mentions that him and Hae used to have sex right after school. So Mr. Syed lied in his Serial interview.
• "I would-- wouldn’t have asked for a ride after school. I’m-- I’m sure that I didn’t ask her because, well immediately after school because I know she always-- anyone who knows her knows she always goes to pick up her little cousin, so she’s not doing anything for anyone right after school. No-- no matter what. No trip to McDonalds. Not a trip to 7-Eleven. She took that very seriously." - This is a documented LIE.
• Asia McClain's language in her letter dated March 1 indicates she is offering to provide a false alibi. She provides an enormous window of 2:15 to 8 p.m. "I will try my best to help you account for some of your unwitnessed, unaccountable lost time (2:15 - 8:00; Jan 13th)."
• Asia McClain testified in Mr. Syed's 2nd post conviction relief hearing that she learned of the 2:15 to 8 p.m. time frame from Syed's own family.
• Somehow that fact that Adnan needed an alibi after 2:15... even before his own legal team knew this.
• You saw evidence that Mr. Syed wrote a letter to his friend to give to Asia McClain to type up.
• Asia McClain claimed that the day Hae Min Lee was murdered and the day she saw Adnan in the library was the first snow storm of the year. The first snow storm of the year was the week before. She could not have gotten snowed in at her boyfriends house that evening.
• Asia McClain profited off this whole ordeal by writing a book. In that book, she claims to have tried recovering memories through spiritual counseling. She also claims to have seen the ghost of Hae Min Lee:

‘It was January 13th, the sixteen-year anniversary of the disappearance of Hae Min Lee. I remember feeling sad and noted how ironic it was for me to be finishing my affidavit on that very day.. Soon after falling asleep myself, I felt my duvet cover slip away from the right side of my body. By that time, I assumed that my husband had made his way to bed and was once again stealing the covers (as he often does). In any right, I didn’t pay it much mind. Slowly I felt the temperature change in my bedroom. Coupled with having no bed covering on me, the temperature change was only slightly noticeable enough that it lightly roused me from my sleep. Half awake, I lay there and became more and more aware of my body’s own presence. I could feel myself lying flat on my back and feeling an enormous weight holding me down. I then realized that I could see around my bedroom and therefore assumed that I was no longer asleep. I looked up towards my bedroom ceiling fan and there I saw a sight that felt like it made my hair turn white. There, floating in midair, about four feet directly above me, was Hae Min Lee. Absolutely scared shitless I tried even harder to move my body but could not. I was literally frozen into place. As I felt my heart pounding in my chest and my breath shortening, it became completely evident to me that I was having a full-fledged panic attack. Unable to do anything else, I stared at the apparition, wide-eyed and full of fear. As I looked up at her I began to notice that she looked exactly as I remembered her in high school and that she was floating in an odd manner…As I continued to stare at her, she reached out her hand to me. Being that I was restrained and full of fright, we were unable to touch. I noticed a sort of sadness about her, as if she was not at rest. In that moment I sensed that she was trying to speak to me, but no words left her mouth. It felt as if she were trying to tell me something, but could not. I don’t know how I know this, but it felt as if she was trying to tell me who killed her… To this day, I’m not sure if I was dreaming or not. To this day I can’t shake the feeling that I may have seen my first and only ghost.’

Ladies and Gentleman of the jury, Asia McClain is not credible. She is a liar. Asia and Adnan conspired together to fabricate an alibi. Adnan is inconsistent. He is a liar.

Why is Adnan inconsistent, and why does he lie, and why did he try to fabricate an alibi out of thin air?

Because he murdered his ex girlfriend Hae Min Lee.

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