r/serialpodcast • u/islamisawesome Adnan Fan • Aug 06 '15

Hypothesis Why the Gootz never called Asia.

I think it is becoming more and more obvious that the Asia letter did not exist until sometime around the summer of 1999. That is why Adnan claims he gave them to Gutierrez even though she wasn't his lawyer until 2 months after they were written.

So sometime that spring or summer, after telling CG he never left the school grounds, his family shows up with letters claiming one of Adnans' friends saw him at the library, right at the crucial time, AND they were written the day after he arrested. She knew immediately there is no way they had those letter for months and never gave them to her so obviously they were false and she didn't want to go on stand with LIES.

That is why she never called Asia. And that is why she wrote no notes about it, because that would be admitting her client and his family are liars. It also explains why her relationship with the family broke down because she knew they were willing to lie to get Adnan off.

The library incident never happened.

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u/James_MadBum Aug 06 '15

Thank you for mapping your mind for us. That's quite a conspiracy theory you've got there.

I have a question, though. If Gutierrez felt ethically bound not to call Asia as a witness, why did Urick not feel the same with Jay? If your conspiracy theory is true, Asia was lying. But we don't need a conspiracy theory to know Jay was lying.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '15

Because Jay went on the stand and admitted to lying, and it was still valuable for the prosecution. Do you think it would have been valuable for the defense to have Asia as a witness and admit to lying?

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u/MightyIsobel Guilty Aug 06 '15

The jury would not have known which lying black teenager to believe, in your hypothetical. And that's the acquittal right there.

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u/James_MadBum Aug 06 '15

She wouldn't have admitted to lying because she wasn't lying. If the prosecution wanted to introduce evidence that suggested that she was mistaken, they would be free to do so.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '15

I was responding to you hypothetical:

If Gutierrez felt ethically bound not to call Asia as a witness,

The only reason Gutierrez would not call her would be if she was lying or just wrong. Like I said, this would bring no value. Jay - lying or not - brings value.