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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
Curb your murder charges.
He spent nearly six months in jail protesting his innocence while staring down the death penalty.
Six Months In Hell: Juan Catalan Maintains His Innocence
Juan Catalan grew up loving the Dodgers.
And when he was eighteen, he caught a home-run ball as it sailed into the stands.
Not in my mind.
That just destroys a person in there….My thought was, Am I gonna die in here?
The fateful episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.60 Minutes Australia
Melnik agreed, and it would be the start of an emotional lifelong friendship between the two.
According to Melnik:
I told him.
Im gonna get you outta here….
Footage of Juan at the game.60 Minutes Australia
I gotta find the Holy Grail of Juans defense.
I need to place my client at Dodger Stadium on that night.
Juan remembered they may have been filming something there that day….We were in for an enormous fight.
The two homicide detectives who tried to frame him.60 Minutes Australia
They prosecutor they had assigned to the case had never lost.
She liked to pick off people with the death penalty.
I looked at tape after tape.
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Look at anything you want.
And then there was another shot where he was standing up.
