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Would A Rose In Different Floral Paper Still Smell As Sweet? Adnan Syed, Part 2




"If there is anything about my case, man - I want to know... I want to test it...

There's nothing about my case that that I'm afraid of."

- Adnan Syed

Serial, Episode 12: What We Knew


Instead of focusing on a flower and Jay's Changing Stories, Consider This:


Christina Gutierrez did NOT provide Effective Assistance because... 

O.4) Xtina was disorganized from the get-go. She has a terrible sounding voice, rest her soul, and she ends questions with, "did you nnaauuugghhhht?!" like after almost literally every question. It's really one of the worst sounding voices and style of asking questions that I've ever heard in my life. She didn't get the Asia testimony and she didn't nail down ANY timeline for a POTENTIAL alibi that could have persuaded the jury in Adnan's favor... and I say potential since even the Prosecutors (the ones at his Trial and the podcast ones) didn't know what time Adnan killed Hae. Boom. 

O.5) She interrupted witnesses who were speaking and they could SHOULD have been able to keep speaking. I get in some cases that is strategic but XTina was not in a strategic frame of mind.

O.6) She fails in front of the jury who were pretty much all pissed at her for the way they were treating Jay. I don't know the breakdown but I do recall one juror who is black being interviewed on Serial and saying the way Christina treated Jay caused her to feel sorry for him and think it was LESS possible for him to have been lying.

O.7) Backing up, she failed to secure bail for Adnan. I do think that this was a Tough Sell, to be fair. If I'm remembering correctly, it was Hae's family - the statement they gave that made Adnan Suspect/ Target or whatever you'd call him.

O.8) Gutierrez didn't spring into action when Adnan was initially charged - where are the witnesses? Where are the members of the track team, Adnan's email account records, getting a subpoena for Hae's pager before it "went missing" and about 100 other things.

O.9) So, Bilal - the Syed family friend with the cell phones and the mentoring and the little boys and the creepy white van - is the one who secured Christina Gutierrez to the Syed family for Adnan's defense. Considering he ended up being a child rapist, I'm not sure he was the best person to ask for advice - but Adnan and his fam didn't know that at the time. 

O.10) Boom. *Mic Drop*


 Things I (Wholeheartedly) Believe:

- Adnan is innocent - he did not murder Hae 

- Jay, Jen, and Don are innocent - they did not help bury Hae, dispose of shovels, see her body in the trunk of her car, throw away clothes, or tell each other that they did, or watch each other do any of these things ever.

- Adnan did not get a fair shake for numerous reasons

- I was born on March 2, 1981. Now y'all know my DOB - so don't mention it in That One Certain Facebook page, because I don't give you permission to share it there. BOOM. 

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