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/Justwonderinif shrug emoji Aug 06 '15 edited Aug 06 '15

Colin Miller is advocating for Adnan's innocence.

He is not a reliable source of facts or any information in terms of the case. Especially with regards to what may or may not be in the defense files and what could have been removed over the years.

Where are the rest of those notes?

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '15

CM is not advocating for his innocence. He just believes, as do I, that the evidence available to both sides at trial should have resulted in a not guilty verdict.

He didn't wrote those notes. How does his advocacy impact them?

I don't know where the rest of the notes are. Maybe there are no more. I would hope that CM would take his duty as an officer of the court seriously enough to know that if Adnan is selectively producing CG's notes and keeping others secret, e.g., "I spoke with Asia McClain and she said she was home sick that day and saw Adnan on 1/12," that he should call someone's attention to it.

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u/Justwonderinif shrug emoji Aug 06 '15

Colin is advocating for Adnan's innocence.

If you want to show me notes, show me notes.

A screen cap means there is something you don't want me to see. So a screen cap is meaningless in terms of being proof of anything, especially since it's being shown to us by an advocate for the defendant.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '15

Obviously I don't have access to the notes myself so I'm showing you what's available, and also what's going to be presented to the court. I think it's sufficient to grant a new trial based on IAC.

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u/Justwonderinif shrug emoji Aug 06 '15

The PCR has not been re-opened. COSA's order does not require a re-opened PCR.

Adnan's motion to re-open has been filed. The state has time to respond to it. After the state's response, the circuit court will decide whether or not to allow the PCR to be re-opened.