Source: http://ift.tt/RuDlrF --- Monday, October 02, 2017
In May 2003, 16-year-old Martha Puebla was shot in the head on the doorstep of her Los Angeles home, just days after testifying in a gangland murder trial. Police arrested 24-year-old Juan Catalan at gunpoint, alleging that he’d carried out the hit for his gangster brother Mario. But he always maintained his innocence and was able to prove it using footage from a Baseball game. In a sort of “needle in a haystack” scenario, Catalan said he was in a crowd of 54,000 at a Baseball game during the murder and certain misanthropic sitcom accidentally saved his life. At the time of Puebla’s cold-blooded killing, Catalan was at Dodger Stadium with his six-year-old daughter, watching the home team lose to Georgia’s Atlanta Braves. Frustratingly, though, Catalan’s lawyer couldn’t find clear enough TV footage to prove it. Catalan faced death row if found guilty at trial and the prosecuting attorney was unbeaten in murder cases and nicknamed “Sniper” because she liked to pick off defendants with the death penalty. Luckily for Catalan, it just so happened that a series four episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm titled The Car Pool Lane was being shot at the ballpark that night. The show saw Larry pick up a prostitute to help him beat the traffic before going to the very same Baseball game as the wrongly accused Catalan. That little stroke of luck saved Catalan’s life. His alibi was confirmed and he no longer fears being killed by the state for a cr ...
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