In 2003, Juan Catalan spent nearly six months in jail for a murder he didn’t commit until unused footage from “Curb Your Enthusiasm” proved he was at a Dodgers game with his daughter during the crime.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
Exclusive insights, data, and analysis for financial market experts.
Search
Have an existing account?
Sign In
There’s a great documentary about it called Long Shot
Whichever cousin that was watching Curb your Enthusiasm and told somebody about this, gets to have unlimited TV privilege now
Juan eventually received a $320,000 settlement from a lawsuit against the police force and the city of LA. The detective spearheading the case was removed from the homicide team, and his partner was moved to another department.
The case of Martha Puebla was also solved, with four men eventually being pinpointed and arrested. Unlike Juan’s case, there was enough evidence here to convict them of the teenager’s murder. “
He should’ve received millions. Imagine if he took half of what he received and bought bitcoin with it.
She had been killed due to her being a witness to the gang’s illegal acts, and the men sought to silence her from speaking to law enforcement.
I just can’t understand how might one find such evidence in an unused footage. Pretty wild and job very well done imo
And that’s why the death penalty shouldn’t be a thing
You are not supposed to have to prove you are innocent.
That’s pretty pretty pretty good news.
Why do all the people look photoshopped
Nobody could confirm he was with his daughter prior being jailed? Cell phone ping tower?
Long shot on Netflix is the documentary
It was superb work from his defense lawyer. That evidence didn’t fall into his lap, and there were some really absurd underhand tactics used by the prosecution that stacked the case against them. It took cellphone records in addition to this footage to finally exonerate him. Crazy they would have put him to death if he couldn’t prove he didn’t do it, rather than the other way around. Even when he was cleared they kept him in jail another two weeks due to a ‘clerical error’. A total disgrace.
$320,000 doesn’t seem like enough even for 2003
What kind of court system is California operating?
A single eyewitness is sufficient evidence to convict someone of a crime but several eyewitnesses to the alibi are insufficient to nullify the claim? This doesn’t make any rational sense.
Was it determined that it’s impossible for the eyewitness to the crime to be mistaken as well as that the eyewitnesses to the alibi couldn’t be trusted as far as they could be thrown? I just don’t understand the logic.
Should you not need to prove guilt rather than innocence?
This is the only picture that looks like it has two faces, this was Doctored
Some of the faces look so fucked up. It could be ai generated if it wasn’t from the before times.
Surely the ticket purchase and registering of the ticket at the gates and perhaps transactions on the bank account from buying food and drinks at the venue would be the logical proof required?
well 320K for 6months in jail is a joke…
/play curb intro
At least it was only for six month.. but poor guy nonetheless
Wtf is this image?
Nah, that was Nestor Cortes from the Yankees…
Coy 🍆
Coy 🍆
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.
This is so disgusting.
Not only did they cage an innocent man, the real criminals were still free.
The surveilance state is good for us and will never be abused to unjustly jail people.
Wait so there isn’t security footage in the whole stadium? His daughter wasn’t a witness? Tickets? So many questions
Not doubting the veracity of the story, but why does the image look like AI?
There is some b roll that actually shows him and his daughter walking up the aisle in clear focus iirc
Did he produce this AI pic as evidence or you did for this post?
Incredible flick
Guilty until proven innocent?
I remember watching a documentary on this guy. This asshole fuckface piece of shit prosecutor said that he could’ve left the game, killed her, and gone back before the game was over and the footage meant nothing.
Absolute fuckery… there’s a special place in hell for people like this.
Anyways, it all ended happily for him.
How many times will this be reposted?
The documentary is so good.
When I zoom in everyone looks like ChatGPT created them
I hear the show first declined to search the footage but reversed their stance when Larry David got word of it and was totally on board with it.
His lawyer went above and beyond to prove his client’s innocence. It was due to his resilience that the footage/picture was found.
this image is the definition of “zoom in and enhance,” no?
This is what I don’t get
So he is innocent, at a game with his daughter and witnesses and cameras, like 100% innocent, not just not guilty
So what evidence did they have to convict him? Eye witness? Because surely there was no actual evidence?
And he would have had a ticket showing he was at the game? Stadium security cameras showing him coming and going?
So how did the judge or jury determine guilt? Or was the 6 months him awaiting trial?
thanks Robert B. Weide
Netflix had a small docu on this awesome story for the vato!