what if i told you a tv show saved
somebody's life i want to tell you about
a tv show that kept a man off death row
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used the word binge ever so in may 2003
16 year old martha puebla was shot to
death on the doorstep of her home in sun
valley california there was only one
eyewitness and that eyewitness fled out
of fear for their life but in their rush
to leave the crime scene left their cell
phone from the cell phone they found the
owner and the eyewitness provided a
description that matched juan catalan
now just a few days before that martha
puebla had testified in court that were
allegedly committed by her ex-boyfriend
jose ledesma and juan catalan's brother
mario so the police had a theory that
juan catalan in retaliation for martha
testifying about juan's brother mario
that he was the one that committed the
crime although she never actually
identified the alleged suspects in court
so technically in this case juan catalan
would have had to guess that she's the
one who
identified his brother in court so
catalan was arrested and questioned and
he said he had nothing to do with the
murder had no idea what they were
talking about but could not provide an
alibi and he couldn't recall his
whereabouts so he remained in custody
but talking to his girlfriend she
reminded him that he was at a dodgers
game and he was watching the game with
his six-year-old daughter so his
girlfriend still had the tickets but
that wasn't enough to provide an alibi
so catalan's attorney todd melkin
contacted sam fernandez the senior vice
president of the dodgers she's asking to
see all the video footage from that
night's game to see if juan catalan
showed up on video so after hours and
hours and hours of combing through all
this footage they did find one but the
resolution was really low and again not
really enough to establish an alibi but
then catalan remembered that a tv
production was filming something right
outside the section he was sitting so
his lawyer found out that the hbo show
curb your enthusiasm
anyone anyone was actually filming
episode six of season four and just to
give you an idea what the episode was
and you may be familiar with it it's a
very popular show it's a very good show
it's a show that i try to get into so
many times and i was like this i can't i
can't handle larry david i can't i think
he's funny
and i think he's i mean he's the
co-creator of seinfeld there was just
something about the show that i could
not get into and then in the last couple
of years i just forced myself to get
into it and
it's amazing more or less how is that
relevant to any of this it's not at all
you're just getting to know me a little
bit better no not interesting okay
that's fine i get it just to give you
some context i will give you a rundown
of the episode season 4 episode 6 the
carpool lane marty funkhouser's dad dies
but decides that he will still use his
dodgers season tickets and an upcoming
game that larry wants to attend cheryl
surprises larry with tickets but he's
been called for jury duty so he makes a
racist comment during the jury selection
to get out of it he buys marijuana for
his father who has glaucoma larry fears
being late to the game and picks up a
prostitute named monina to use the
carpool lane you know that old trick you
need to use a carpool lane so you
solicit a prostitute it's classic
they're seen together at the game by two
men who interviewed larry and cheryl for
admission to a country club after the
game
marty puts on lara's jacket and is
arrested for the marijuana possession
larry monina and his father then smoke
monina's supply together larry comes
forward on marty's behalf it appears
before the same judge who oversaw his
jury selection as a reminder this
episode helped keep a man off death row
so you know what i mean these are the
scales of justice i don't know and after
viewing the footage that day because if
you've been to pretty much any baseball
game but dodger stadium i've been to a
bunch of times mostly see concerts
sometimes to see dodgers games that i
went to for free because it was like
some kind of weird free work thing or
whatever and it's great
i live relative as where i am right now
is relatively close to dodger stadium
but there's a lot of footage of a lot of
things to cover in case you don't want
to miss anything so even though there's
a lot of people there's a pretty good
chance that they're going to have
footage of catalan and they did heading
back from the concession stand to their
seat clear as day right there
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case closed not really not yet but the
state is still trying to make their case
and time wise he could have been at the
game committed the murder gone back so
it wasn't exactly airtight at least
according to the timeline of when the
murder happened and when he allegedly
committed it so it's looking better good
but what really sealed the deal was a
phone call that catalan made from dodger
stadium at a time where he could not
have committed the murder and been at
the game at the same time the judge
dismissed the case and he was released
so what happened to juan catalan
after this ordeal because it's tough
even if you're somebody that
was accused of something you found out
you didn't do it there's still a
possible
improbable stigma around you if you do a
google search your name shows up and
chances are at least at that time 2004
2005 it's probably mostly going to be
the criminal aspect of this whole thing
for juan catalan in 2007 juan catalan
got a 320 000
settlement from the city of los angeles
and the police force what do you think
of
those two detectives now
um
you know it took a while to
forgive them for what they did
but i want to say
out of all honesty that i do forgive
them for what they did
because
um
they've admitted that i set you up
yeah
and my mom told me you know
forgive them you know for what they did
one of them is still a police officer
yeah which is
shocking and he was the subject of a
netflix documentary called long shot it
was like any other day but as soon as i
opened the door
i was completely surrounded like swat
style
my daughter
she looks up and says dad
i told him
i'm gonna get you out of here
i asked him do you remember where you
were
i was at rogers game i gotta find the
holy grail of wine's defense
i need to place my client
at dodger stadium on that night
juan he remembered they may have been
filming something there that day
that episode was that i picked up a
hooker in the carpool lane and took her
to dodger stadium so when you're
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