The streak helped a defendant avoid the death penalty, and the Netflix documentary is catching on

It all started when a man named Juan Catalan was arrested on August 12, 2003, accused of the May 12, 2003 murder of 16-year-old Martha Puebla, who testified in the case in which Juan’s brother was accused. He was shot in the head by a passenger in a sedan in front of his home.

An eyewitness witnessed the murder and fled. When the police found him, he gave a description of the alleged killer. A composite portrait has been created that closely resembles that of Juan Catalan. The latter was present at the trial involving his brother and therefore attended Puebla’s testimony. He is placed behind bars.

Except that on May 12, the Catalan would have an alibi. He claims he was at the stadium watching the Dodgers, the Los Angeles baseball team, with his 6-year-old daughter, his cousin Miguel and his friend Ruben.

According to the documentary Long Shot, which chronicles the case, his attorney Todd Melnyk searched for footage taken during the match and found it among the tens of thousands of people in the audience, but the quality was not enough to justify it as the rest of the match. tickets. But when Melnyk learned that the HBO comedy Larry and his Neville was coming to shoot that day, he contacted the production company.

But producer Tim Gibbons doesn’t believe this story. He replies that stills from the series will never be shown to the public and that they will have to wait until the episode airs on HBO. At Melnick’s insistence, Gibbons asked series creator and lead actor Larry David what he thought.

Larry David is the co-creator of Seinfeld and has aired Larry and His Navel on HBO for three years. The episode featuring the Dodgers game is the seventh from the upcoming 4th season. A few shots were taken during the game, and one of the six pique tapes clearly shows Juan Catalan returning from a pastry shop with his daughter:

Except that the prosecution does not give up so quickly and believes that the accused could have left before the end of the match and still committed the murder. Thanks to a phone call made by his wife to the Catalan, Melnyk manages to prove that his client stayed until the end of the match and that he could not have arrived at the scene of the crime and been there at the time of the shooting. He is declared innocent.

The Long Shot documentary gives a full account of the case, particularly the abuse committed by the police during the investigation, but we won’t divulge more to leave it up to subscribers to discover.